Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Basic bitmap image editing (section)

==There is a tree growing out of someone's head==

Well not literally perhaps, but often there are parts of the image that you would prefer are not there. The trouble is if you simply delete them with the eraser tool, you'll end up with a great big splodge of the background colour. What you would like to do is remove the offending tree but leave the sky alone.

===Using the clone tool to erase offending objects===
The clone tool (the button with two brushes) copies one area of the picture to another. To use it, you first right click the area you want to copy from, then left click and drag the area you want to copy to. A black cross appears on the picture to show you where you are copying from. Press and hold shift while rolling the while to adjust the width of the brush. On the picture on the right, you can see the tree is being erased by copying a portion of the sky over the tree.