Clone, spot healing tool, content aware will not work on 11 or 12

The following tools will not work on PSE 11 or 12: clone, spot healing, content aware. Using 3 yr old iMac with latest OS. Same problem on Mac Book. I must be something wrong.

I'm not sure what was going on. I eneded up discarding the photo I was working on and open up another one and everything worked. I guess just a little hitch in it's gitty-up!
Thanks for your comments.

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hiking11 wrote:
…do you know how to find the installer on a Mac so I can uninstall some of the Nik software…
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I downloaded a trial version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 to use the Spot Healing Tool but that is all I need it for so paying $160 for this product is not an option.
Is there a tool in Iphoto or some other free software for mac I can use for this same purpose, to remove blemishes or scrapes or whatever from faces in pictures?
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