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This tutorial will give you an idea of how to productively clone an object out of an image. Some people might wonder why it is called cloning. This is because you are creating a part of the image that was not there from other parts of the image. In this tutorial I will tell you some of the basics. Please bear with me, it is difficult to show you in detail every step without overbloating the post with images. Level: Intermediate (can be useful for advanced Photoshop users) Photoshop Version: CS4 (Can apply to Earlier versions up to Photoshop 6) Tutorial: In this image is a bug that we are going to remove. We are going to clone it out by placing pieces of the image over it until it is gone. Each person using Photoshop will have their own way of doing this — so take note: this is my way of doing this particular action. The first thing we want to do is to clone out the major part of the image by using a piece of the image, here we select a square part of the petal. Next,...