Clone and Heal Tool (GIMP)

These past two days I investigated about the Heal and Clone tool and the circumstances where you may use it.Both of them are used basically with the same purposes, so if you are new with Gimp, don't worry, this will not be overcomplicated.

Both of them are for copying the sampled area, or in other words, duplicating whatever image you want in the original image. They have an important detail that differentiates them, though.

Clone Tool

• The clone tool is used to just duplicated the sampled area to the selected area, only the colours.This is mostly used to repair areas with problems in digital photos, but it has many more uses.

  

  For example, Iran tried to trick the world by releasing this photo to the public, but if you pay a little bit of attention to the smoke, you will notice the use of the Clone Tool. You can find the details of the story
  here:http://revealingerrors.com/send_in_the_clones

Using the clone tool is really easy, just follow this steps:

1. Click the tool icon (see above) in the toolbox.
2. Press Control and click the part of the image you want to copy, this is for setting a target.
3. Now you can start duplicating!

Heal Tool:

• The Healing Tool is used to duplicate the sampled area to the selected area. Sounds familiar, right?
•   In the most basic sense, they are used for the same purpose, but the Heal Tool, doesn't just copy the colors of the image, it also copies the texture, lightning, transparency and even shading. It is extremely useful to correct imperfections in the face (like wrinkles)

Image provided by: http://www.evepearl.com/before_after/light-skin-wrinkles-crows-feet.htm

Now you can see the image with a few touches of the Heal Tool, it is specially noticeable in the eyes:

     In the most basic sense, they are used for the same purpose, but the Heal Tool, doesn't just copy the colors of the image, it also copies the texture, lightning, transparency and even shading. It is extremely useful to correct imperfections in the face (like wrinkles)

Using the heal tool is just as simple as the clone tool:

1. Click the tool icon (see above) in the toolbox.
2. Press Control and click the part of the image you want to copy, this is for setting a target.
3. Now you can start duplicating!