crop not working as expected

[jimbir]

I stitched 2 photos together. There was a black shape on the top of the panel. I drew an ellipse shaped like the panel and set it as a selection. I was hoping I could use the clone brush to remove the black shape with the texture of the panel using the ellipse selection to contain the cloned texture. I selected the background layer. Theclone brush doesn't work anywhere on the image. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks, Jim B.

[Jean-Luc]

The ellipse must be on its own layer.

[jimbir]

The ellipse is on its own vector layer. When I select that layer and try to clone, the image blinks and a layer called promoted selection. If I select it and try the clone tool, nothing happens. If I select ellipse layer again and try the clone tool, I get a message telling me the layer must be converted to a raster layer. I click on yes and try the clone tool on it and nothing happens.

[LeviFiction]

When setting the source point you either a) need to have the background layer already selected when setting the source point, or b) have "use all layers" selected. Beyond that I can't think of anything that would make it fail. What are your settings on the clone brush?

[Cassel]

Did you create the ellipse with a vector by any chance?

[jimbir]

Cassel. The ellipse is on its own vector layer.

Levifiction. See below

There are the steps I've taken:

Draw ellipse
vector 1 created
Select new ellipse
edit mode
Shape ellipse to suit
click apply
with ellipse layer selected, click on selections>from vector object,can see no marching ants.
Select bachground layer>selections. From vector object grayed out.
With ellipse layer selected, click on pick tool. Ellipse goes into edit mode with marching ants visible.
Open clone tool
Settings: size 200,hardness 100, step 30, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opaciry 100, blend mode normal, aligned mode checked.
If I try to clone on the ellipse layer, a promoted selection layer gets created.
(I don't know what to do with this.)
If I try to clone on the back ground layer, The marching ants blink off and back on. The clone and operation fails.

[LeviFiction]

I think I know what your problem is, your ellipse doesn't have a fill. When you convert a vector object to a selection PSP uses the visible area of the vector to create the selection. So if you only have a stroke and no fill, then only the stroke gets selected, nothing in the middle is selected.

You need to turn on the fill when you create your ellipse.

Video Demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FlFL ... JCM2M/view