I am going to fix a photo. This is my starting photo that I took of my hibiscus, sometimes nature is not prefect, but we can fix it!

See the gap? We are going to fix it! First I zoom in to see the outter line. I want to outline a pedal and duplicate it, to fill the gap. I click on the outline tool

I will start here

I click around in small steps, until I connect to the starting spot

You dont really have to be perfect with the outlining. Here is my selection

Now I click CTRL+d and make a duplicate of the selection. This is the duplicate

and in my stack I have cuplicate

I also like the leaf, that will be covered up, so I am going to outline it too.

So now I click on the pedal, and move it to where I want it.

I have to tilt it so that it fits right

Then I squash it a little

And stretch it a little

Not too bad! But not quite there yet ;-)

First I make sure the pedal is selected, then I go in to EFFECTS/TRANSPARENCY/BRUSH, I always choose HARD transparentcy and 100%

I want to take a little off of the pedal, so that is looks more "real".

Here we go

Now I want to lock the pedal and the photo together, so I can use the clone tool, I click the pedal, then press and hold CTRL and click the photo in the stack

A little lock appears, so I click it to lock them together

Now I go to TOUCHUP/CLONE BRUSH. I want to put in some of the red center on the new pedal

I click on the red part first, I try to pick an area where I will get more coverage before I have to pick a new starting place.

The x is where the tool will get the red from, the o will be where it will clone it too.

I usually clone a little, then click SET NEW START POSITION several times while working with the clone. Some times it works better to click several times than to drag it. Here is what I come up with

I repeat the same steps for my added leaf, and this is what I get!