01-01-2026, 03:42 PM
(12-31-2025, 03:12 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Looking at your little clip and you using the clone tool.
Look at the clone tool options. You do have the tool options dock don't you ?
The clone tool does use whatever brush you have selected, you possibly have something like a "bristles" brush selected. Select one of the others - one of those "round" looking brushes for example. Other tools such as paint / pencil / erase / smudge also use the active brush so changing the tool might not change the cursor.
Have you looked at the manual ? https://docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/gimp-tool-clone.html
This is the same as your other post and
Gimp always has an active tool. To leave clone go to some other tool such as measure ( is safe for beginners )
Looking at your other post about cloning out some text - it depends on
Is the text a Gimp text layer ? - clone is wrong tool
Is the text in its own transparent layer ? - delete it
Is the text just part of another graphics layer ? - yes use the clone tool
Edit: Just a note, you can change the cursor in Edit -> Preferences -> Input Devices but it is usually best to have the brush outline showing.
Yeah, didn't see this post(original) so created a new one. Thanx for your response, rich2005. Very helpful. Still working through the manual and youtube tutorials. will look through to determine if layers exist and how to manipulate. Thanx again.