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Photoshop’s Clone Stamp tool has a variety of uses.  Not only can you replicate people and switch out faces, but you can also create a variety of backgrounds that can be used on the web as backgrounds or to create larger images from smaller images.

Imagine you are creating a book cover or you need some other large photo that has a clean and unobstructed area where you can place type.  The clone stamp can help you achieve this.  Photos with sky at the top of them are excellent for enlarging so that you can use them as covers or to create areas where you can place type that is readable and unobstructed.  Begin by enlarging the top portion of your photo.  You can do this by opening your photo and choosing Image > Canvas size.  Click the bottom middle square as your anchor.  Next, enlarge the number for height only.  This will add white canvas to the top of your image.  This is where you will clone your sky or background.

Now, you can choose the clone stamp tool.  Click the brush picker arrow and select a brush that is an appropriate size.  You will probably want to use a large round brush if you are creating a background.  You will also want to choose a blending mode and opacity percentage.  Uncheck aligned to create a repetitive area from the same source point.  On the layers palette you will choose the layer that you want to clone from.  If you are only using one layer you will not need to worry about doing this, as you will only have the background layer to work from.

To establish a source point, you will Alt-Click on the area that you are cloning.  If you are doing a background image, you will want to gradually move your source point up so that you do not accidentally clone a part of the image that is not a part of the background.

The same cloning technique can be used to create multiple clones of an image.  If you want the image to be aligned with the original, then you will want to ensure that the Aligned box is checked.  For example, you can clone a person right next to the same person.  If you use an opacity of 50% you can create a double-exposure or ghostly effect.  If you want to clone parts of an image, you can uncheck aligned and clone sections all around the original image.  Be creative in your cloning and you will be able to create a myriad of unique images.