# Is there a simple way to make a clone stamp tool?

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**Created:** [March 13, 2010, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-there-a-simple-way-to-make-a-clone-stamp-tool/306336 "2010-03-13T07:42:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![dustinsmith08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@dustinsmith08](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dustinsmith08)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-there-a-simple-way-to-make-a-clone-stamp-tool/306336/1 "2010-03-13T07:42:24Z")

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Ive worked on this for several hours and Im hoping there is a simpler way to make a clone stamp tool because this project if giving me a killer headache.

Its for a simple photoshop-type app that helps users make website backgrounds.

I need to make a clone stamp tool that has fuzzy edges so it blends in with the image (just like the clone tool in photoshop). At first I thought it would be easy to draw a gradiant line and then use it as a gradian mask for a copy of the image. For some reason though, the gradient line fill only reveals a gradient shape, it doesn’t actually make a line that is solid in the center and fades out like the gradient line tool in photoshop.

Since that dint work im working with pixel bender to make a kernel that kind of makes a gradient line, but I thought it might be a good idea to ask if someone has done this or can point out a simpler way to make it.

Thanks