CS3: alignment of the Clone Stamp tool

This has been me mad for years and I finally decided to post it here to see if I could get help.

Imagine a photo of a wall against the horizon. Dead-level in the framework. There is a smutch at the intersection of the wall and the horizon, I want to clean up with the clone stamp. I use the sliders 'accurate', btw.

So I pressed at the same intersection a little on the side of the smutch option. Once I did the crosshairs disappear to make things more difficult than they should be, but I move tool directly horizontally , and then click the center of the tool to the specific intersection.

The tool sticks an image which is moved vertically by a number of pixels. No matter how to move tool when I click I can't get the hotspot of the tool on the ground where it should be.

Why is this? Happens all the time. There must be something I am doing wrong.

Thanks in advance

You can always press the option key to get line of sight again, then release the right of option before starting the cloning. So: Press option, reticle is just between the finger and the wall, click on to the bottom to get source. Press option again to get line of sight, move the tool horizontally and aim using crosshairs, OUTPUT option and start cloning.

Also check out the clone source Panel (window > source of duplication). It has an overlay and the shift feature could be useful. You don't seem a prime candidate for the new preview of clone feature in CS4.

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