Photoshop 12 Question In Cs5 On Mac - Clone Tool

[smiffffffy]

Hi Guys, I have scanned a picture at 800 dpi and i am using the clone tool to replicate colours sampled with the pipette into areas i have inserted a circle in.
With the pipette however it only samples a single colour and not a true reflection of the colour i wish to clone and then fill the circle with if i use the fill bucket or paint brush.
I am currently using the clone tool to clone a sample area and then rubbing this into the circle i want to fill with the chosen colour. This IS working, but i would like to know if there is a much easier way to fill the circle than trying to keep the clone crosshair on the correct colour and rubbing the circle in small strokes.
So the question is can i sample a section of colour rather than picking a single pixel colour which does not give the correct colour (only a solid variation of the colour i want) due to not picking up hundreds of pixels in the sample.

Off of the back of this is there a way to clone fill a sample colour without having to worry where the clone tools crosshair pick up is going ( its annoying when it keeps picking up text or another colour i don't want). Therefore i can just keep filling the area without worrying about the pick up area because it has been chosen and stored for use.
many thanks

[Buenchico]

This is actually about reducing the sample size to 'point sample' (which is what you seem to be using) but doing it the other way round should give you a larger sample size with the eye-dropper:
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8319/color-picker-in-photoshop-is-wrong

[Fanriffic]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Fill The Circle" but assume that you have selected an area on your image (the circle) that you wish to fill with your chosen colour.
The Clone Tool is the wrong tool for this job.
Here's what I would do.
Use the Eyedropper Tool to select the colour your wish to sample from your image by clicking on the area. Zoom in for more accuracy and using the Caps Lock Key to Toggle between Dropper icon and Crosshairs if this helps. Select Point Sample from Sample Size at top of screen.
Once you are happy that you have selected the colour you require this should now appear on the two squares at the bottom of your Toolbox Pallete as your Foreground Colour (not Background) which are by default Black and White.
To toggle between these just click on the one you require.
Now go to the EDIT Menu and select FILL and choose Content Foreground. Your selected "Circle" should now be filled with your chosen colour.
Going back to the Toolbox Pallete - if you 'double click' the square colour this will give you the options to save that individual colour to your Colour Swatches Pallete - giving you the option to Name Your Colour and select it every time you need it as a colour to fill content from your Swatches.
If the above doesn't work then I must add that to make the Colour Fills in your Circles - the Circles need to be a Live Marquee Selection on that same Photoshop Layer. You could always create a new Layer for each new Circle to allow you to Edit them each in turn.
By the way 800dpi is far to high a resolution - 300dpi should be enough unless to intend to enlarge your images for printing.
Hope all this is of some help to you.

[Tuvok]

You could select the area you want to use as your colour source and either define it as a pattern and then fill the circle or just paste the area into a new layer and draw your circle area marquee, select inverse and delete - leaving filled circle.