I had this picture of some poached pears which I wanted to post on one of my blogs. The only problem was the bowl looked a bit messy. To make it look a bit better I thought I would clean it up a bit in photoshop. This is where the clone stamp tool is really useful. First you need to select a brush size from the brushes menu. Then you need to select the area you want to clone. I chose a clean area of the blue bowl. Next press alt to define the cloning area. The tool will basically copy this area so you can clone it to other areas. Now simply click over the areas you want to clean, in this case the red stains on the bowl. I also cleaned up the left hand side of the bowl where you can see a small chip. On this area I selected a smaller brush and cloned part of the rim and table, before clicking over the area with the chip to correct it. If you like the look of the recipe, it will shortly be appearing on my personal blog.
