How do I control the cross-hair position in Clone Brush

[Affinity-Inspiration]

What’s the secret to controlling the cross-hair position when trying to use Clone Brush. It appears to be randomly placed when selecting and painting. Either too close to the edge - or over it, or even o a part of the image I don’t want to clone.

[walt.farrell]

V1 or V2 of Affinity Photo?

[Affinity-Inspiration]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

V1 or V2 of Affinity Photo?

V2. The latest.

[walt.farrell]

You set the source location initially with a long-press on the spot you want. After that, the Aligned option will provide some influence.

Help: https://affinity.help/photo2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_cloneBrush.html

If that doesn't help, please provide a screen recording showing the problem you're having.

[Affinity-Inspiration]

18 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You set the source location initially with a long-press on the spot you want. After that, the Aligned option will provide some influence.

Help: https://affinity.help/photo2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_cloneBrush.html

If that doesn't help, please provide a screen recording showing the problem you're having.

So just to check, when the clone tool is first selected, it says “Click +Plus Drag to clone selected source." Shouldn't this say Alt+ Select to select a source, Then say Click And Drag to clone, then say Alt + Click to select another source. So I get confused easily....

It pretty much works if I Alt+Select first. Then turn Alt off. 
But... so let me do a video.

 

[Affinity-Inspiration]

2 minutes ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

So just to check, when the clone tool is first selected, it says “Click +Plus Drag to clone selected source." Shouldn't this say Alt+ Select to select a source, Then say Click And Drag to clone, then say Alt + Click to select another source. So I get confused easily....

It pretty much works if I Alt+Select first. Then turn Alt off. 
But... so let me do a video.

 

Ok. The video.

 

 

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for the video. That's working as I would expect. It's up to you to manage the location of the source vs where you're trying to paint. If it approaches the edge of the image, or some other area you don't want to try to clone from, you can pick a different source point, or stop that brush stroke (lift the brush) and start a new one so the source moves back to the point you selected.

17 minutes ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

when the clone tool is first selected, it says “Click +Plus Drag to clone selected source." Shouldn't this say Alt+ Select to select a source, Then say Click And Drag to clone, then say Alt + Click to select another source.

When you first select the Clone Brush Tool, and it's the first time you've used it for that image since you Opened the image, the Status Bar will tell you to Opt+click Select a source point.

Once you have a source selected, it will tell you you can click/drag to clone, or opt+click to select a new one as you can see in your screenshot.