Clone Stamp Issues

Performed image editing to digitally remove some elements. During the process, the "image size". Although the editing went well the resolution of the image is clearly degraded.
1- could the change of image size have anything to do with this outcome
2. If the edit is repeated from the original image what precautions might be taken.
* The images are uploaded to: https://skydrive.live.com/?sc=photos&cid=1727c265a60f257a#cid=1727C265A60F257A&id=1727C265 A60F257A%21321&sc=photos
Guidance sought

That usually happens if you have the Caps Lock on, if not that, check in photoshop under Edit>Preferences>Cursors and check those settings.
Did you use Image>Resize to downsample the image and if so what settings?
Just curious because if i downsample the image using any one of the bicubic options in the image size dialog to a size of 768x227 it's not all blurry.
MTSTUNER

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Here is are a couple of VERY odd anomalies I have come across.
PS CS4 v. 11.0 on Win XP Pro SP 3 loaded on Dell Optiplex 755...
When using the eraser tool, it will work if the mode is set to "block" but if mode is set to "brush" or "pencil" it will not work.
Also, clone stamp doesn't work at all. I have tried myriad mode settings, brush settings sample settings. After alt/clicking to obtain the sample, I move the tool over the area I wish to "replace" with the cloned selection. Before I click, I can see a small sample of the cloned area where the bush is positioned. However, once I click it goes away and nothing happens! It is recorded as a step in the history panel, but no changes are made to the image.
I must admit that I am stumped. Thanks in advance for anyone's insight.

Susan,
Have you checked for an updated driver from Wacom? Around the release of new versions of PS, they usually have some new ones, that better utilize the features (the REAL ones) in PS.
Also, you should have complete access to your Wacom controls (Control Panel>Wacom) and I'd check to see that nothing has been changed, or reconfigured.
I do not have CS4, but there also might be tablet controls in Preferences?
Last, though you have checked your Brush settings, you might want to look at everything there very closely. I had a similar sounding issue when one aspect of Brush Dynamics was reset. Unfortunately, that was so very long ago, and I do not recall the exact setting that messed things up.
Good luck,
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How to fix clone stamp issue?

MAC OS / Photoshop CS5
As you can see in the attached image, my clone stamp selection doesn't extend out to the edges of the outline, which makes using it very clumsy to use. My PS installation at home and all the installations at this business don't do this.
I've tried messing with all the clone stamp settings, resetting the clone stamp presets, and resetting the general Photoshop preferences at startup. However, nothing I've tried has had any affect.
So how can I get this adjusted so that the clone stamp selected area extends out to the edges of the grey outline?

What version of mac os x are you using?
If what JJMack suggested above doesn't make a difference, then in general the brush
size cursor in photoshop on mac os x can be affected by the setting of the cursor size
set in Universal Access. usually you want the cursor size set to Normal.
something like this depending on your version of os x:
http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/vision/how-do-i-increase-the-size-of-the-cursor-in-mac-os -x/

Clone Stamp Confusion in PS CC 2014

Hello,
Has anyone else attempted multi-layer clone stamping in the new PS CC 2014? For some reason the layer I am cloning to is getting attached to the mouse and moving around wildly while I try to figure out what is going on. I open the same image in the original version of PS CC and no issues arise. Is this some new feature Adobe failed to put into the tutorials?
I get that writing this program is incredibly complex and difficult but the clone stamp seems to be a fundamental function in the toolbar, unless this is specifically happening on my system and no others I'd think this would be a fairly major thing to have missed while testing out the beta version.
If there is a fix for this that I have not yet found please share a link. It is really knocking off my zen while working on photo retouching to have the tools go crazy like this. If it is something others are experiencing, please let me know. I dread having to call into the awful tech support for Adobe products and would love to find an answer here rather than deal with that black morass.
Thanks
Working on a MacBook Pro OS 10.9.4, according to the Creative Cloud I am up to date with the latest version of PS 2014.1.0 Release (20140730.r.148 x64)

Ok so it looks like third time is the charm. I uninstalled and re-installed Photoshop CC 2014 three times and on that third time the clone stamp issue resolved. seems a little extreme just to get the clipped option in the program to function correctly. Tech support was absolutely no help, big surprise.
So for future reference, if tools in PS CC 2014 are not working, just keep reinstalling the program, it will come out right at some point.

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having problems with photoshop 5.5... new issue for me, as there weren't any issues yesterday. both the 'healing brush tool' and the 'clone stamp tool' are giving problems. when i press the alt key to collect an area to sample, on my screen it looks as tho the hand tool engages, and there is a second (copy looking) image moving around my screen over the original. i've already tried the 'tool reset all' function and rebooted... still haveing the same issue. anybody have some advise? help a guy?

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iMac 21.5";   new on 12/14/2011;   OS Version 10.7.3; 2.7GHz Intel Core i5; AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB.
Two and Three Layer, all layers are copies of background layer, plus two adjustment layers, 8 Bit file:
Clone Stamping directly on image layer with Background layer directly below and with copy of Background layer directly below.
Intuos 4 tablet and pen.
Clone Stamp tool Setup:
Layer Adjustment parameter set to either This Layer and Below or All Layers.
All other parameters at default.
Using simple soft brush.
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The bug: Clone Stamp too will only affect the layer selected to do the actual cloning.
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Welcome back gang.
Made a couple new discoveries while double checking.
Again, the same four layer setup: Background-Background copy-HSB Adj layer-Levels Adj layer.
The problem replicates with the Adj layers clipped or not.
The key is any tweak in the Adj layers will cause the issue.
Any Adj layer tweak seems to get exaggerated when smudging on a layer.
For example, increasing the gamma or center slider in the Levels box will cause all bright pixels to go white and darker pixels to go black.
I do not know the threshold luminance pixel value but I would guess it is at 128/128.
Modest tweaks to the Adj layer, for example raising the gamma slider to 1.20 will cause the smudge to posterize or turn white.
Tweaking the HSB Saturation slider to +12 will cause color posterization.
Counter to what I had stated upstream, any setting of the Smudge tool will cause this to happen.
Also, as said upstream, the performance goes down such that the spinning balls appear frequently.
In other words, it does not appear to be a 1-to-1 relationship of tweaks made in the Adj layer to the effect of the Smudge tool.
My guess is that the Sample All Layers option is multiplying the color and luminance values fo the layers together.
Plus, it was probably designed to do so but I do not think it was to be so pronounced.
Still amazes me that the situation never occurred or did I notice it until now, and the issue exists in CS5 too.
When did PS add the Sample All Layers option to the Smudge tool?
Anybody else?
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Problem with clone stamp in Photoshop 8 and 9

Whenever I use the clone stamp it may work alright for a while,but then it starts doing odd things like shooting off lines or dots but not the spot I had cloned. Then I have to undo the marks it has made and hope it will work right the next time. It has done this on Photoshop 8 and 9. Is this a known bug? Can anyone shed light on this problem?

George I tried your suggestion and the same thing occured. Funny thing is my original script would work ok in 9 Pro but not 9 Reader. Through trial and error I found that if I commented out 'oDoc.closeDoc();' the script worked perfect in both 9 Pro and Reader- all attachements printed.
I have tested in 7, 8, and 9 Reader and only tested in 7 and 9 Pro. Eveything works fine.
Very odd.
Does anyone know if I will run into issues not closing the documents , or are they closed automatically after printing? I don't want to run into memorty isssus down the road.
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Clone Stamp & Healing Brush

I did not realize I made any changes but my Clone Stamp nor my Healing brush have any effect & the circle is white. How do I reset to default or correct his problem.
Dave,
[email protected]

It's absolutely notz clear what you are referring to. You have not provided any system info or details about your current settings for these tools. For all we know, this could be a trivial graphics hardware acceleration issue, so as a first step try to turn off those options in the prefs.
Mylenium

A problem using clone stamp tool

Hi guys,
I use After Effects CC last version on a pc under windows 7 ultimate..
This problem must be simple to solve but I just don't see how.
I have an aerial view of the Vesuvio. The volcano makes a 10 to 15° circular motion due to the helicopter moving.
I need to eliminate the actual houses and other trails on the border of the crater to have my volcano as it was 2000 years ago when it erupted and destroyed Pompeii.
I succeeded to do that with the clone stamp tool without a problem and it takes of course into account all the different shades of earth on the cliffs of the volcano.
But when I preview the shot, while the volcano moves, I can see the stamped touches of paint moving as if floating above the volcano. The older surface is not visible as I wanted but the new one does't follow the movement. I'm sure I forgot to do something but what? Should I do the clone stamp in conjunction with motion tracker, if so how? I tried once but got the same problem.
Thanks in advance
Claude

OK, I see a bunch of painting on the nearest slope of the volcano that does not track with the shot. Your biggest problem is workflow using the clone stamp. You are just not using it properly. If it were me, the first think I would do is to use the After Effects tracker to stabilize this part of the volcano so that it didn't move in the frame.
Now you only have perspective issues to deal with.
Next I would duplicate the stabilized layer, pre-compose the duplicate moving all attributes to the new composition, name the preComp - clone or paint pre-comp, then open the pre-comp in the layer panel and use the clone stamp to repair the parts of the image you want to repair. You can then add other trackers for the parts of the image you want to clone or use a time offset to make your painted layer match the mountain.
I probably would do something completely different. I'd export the middle frame of this move as a Photoshop file, then go in and paint the mountain the way I wanted it to look. I'd mask the background in photoshop so I only see the sides and face of the volcano. Then I'd bring my painted mountain back into AE and animate distortion, scale and rotation so the painted layer matches the original perspective on the shot as close as possible. When that is done I'd go back to my main comp, add a null, tie the null's position to the anchor point of the stabilized footage, then parent the original copy of the footage and the painted copy to the null to put the camera movement back in the scene.
Here's a tutorial on how to apply tracking data to a clone stamp in AE:
Removing an Object with Clone Stamp - After Effects Tutorial
I am pretty convinced that you added the smoke... Use the same procedure to get the smoke to look right. It's also floating in an unnatural manner. You could also replace the far background with a matte painting of the city using the same mask, duplicate, paint in Photoshop, then distort and remove the stabilization.

Object removal in moving video (use Clone Stamp or Roto Brush?)

Hello,
I've been having a really difficult time trying to remove objects from moving clips. I'm attempting to remove the head off of the right most statue, but cannot find an effective way to do this... When I use the clone stamp, it tracks, but I cannot get it to blend in realistically, seeing as the color of the sky changes as the clip pans right. I also tried using a cut out image of the sky and tracked that, but that failed to blend as well...
If anyone has any suggestions for this problem, I would greatly appreciate it. I have this same issue with a couple other clips as well.
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G

So I downloaded your video and took a look. To replace the head on the second figure from the left I simply moved to frame 250, duplicated the footage layer, used the clone stamp to replace the head with sky giving plenty of padding, set Paint to paint on all frames and then extended the paint strokes to the entire timeline. I also applied Layer>Time>Freeze Frame to the clip. Then I pre-composed the top copy so that I could use a mask to precisely cut out around the collar. I then added a Motion Track null to the comp and gave a quick motion track to the footage picking a couple of points on the second figure from the left that were below the collar. I ran a motion track, applied the motion track to the null, then parented the pre-comp to the null so that it would follow the camera move.
Took about 10 minutes. Here's a CS6 project file that uses your footage. You'll have to replace the footage in your comp and then it should work.
You could use the PSD that you created instead of all the painting and pre-comping. IOW, if you replace the pre-comp with the PSD you made at the proper frame then drew your mask and parented the PSD to the Null everything should work just fine.

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Hi,
I am using PhotoShop CS4 on a Mac Pro (2x2.8Ghz Quad Core, 4Gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT) running 10.5
My CS4 is up to date.
I use a Wacom Intuos3 6x11 tablet with stylus; it is also up to date.
I am retouching a large (1.88GB) PSD file with multiple layers.
Here is my problem: as I attempt to use the clone stamp, PS stalls in a really peculiar way. I'll either be in the act of cloning, or holding spacebar to get the hand to move around the image, and PS stops functioning. No commands work; the mouse is unresponsive. I do get two large boxes at the top of my image: one is a static checkerboard transparency, the other is a checkerboard trasparency that flickers at seizure-inducing rates.
This goes on for about 20 minutes, after which I am able to work normally (and save, save, save) for about five minutes.
It also seems to be exacerbated if I zoom in closer than 100%.
I have not had this problem on larger files, so I'm not convinced this is a memory issue. It is going to become a "smash my Mac with my tablet" issue.
I have turned off all other programs, including Spaces.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

Did you update to Photoshop 11.0.1?
If you already did, then it sounds like you're having a display driver problem or a GPU failure.
You may want to get the machine checked, and in the meantime you can turn off GPU drawing in preferences.

Clone stamp & eraser have a mind of their own!

I have recently moved from CS2 up to CS5, and am loving all the changes, however the last few days I have been in all sorts of trouble with the following issue.
When using the clone stamp, or eraser, or even a brush , the cursor keeps jumping half a screen away at odd times causing either whole sections to erased (when using the shift key) or cloning a part elswhere on the image.
This is really hard to explain, yet easy to demonstrate, but I first noticed it the other day when i was erasing part of a layer and holding down the shift key ....as I clicked along the curve I was erasing, after about the 3rd click it would fly off to another part of the image, OK not a catastrophe as all you do is back up one move, but it happens frequently. The same for detailed cloning ...I am cloning away and it the shoots off at a tangent...
I recently invested in a USB wireless mouse, which was great, and did wonder if it was the batteries running low and sending out wrong signals, but I swapped back to hard wired mouse, but the problem persisted - however it was not as frequent.
Its driving me mad as when I zoom out of an image i have been detailing, there are rogue patches on it where its jumped to and i havent noticed..
Any ideas?

OpenGL is a system for displaying graphics, which when done properly leverages more of the power of your GPU than the normal Windows GDI can. Thus when enabled in Photoshop we gain access to smooth panning/zooming, brush gestures, and can even use it for some of the 3D work in Photoshop Extended. OpenGL is implemented in video drivers/firmware/hardware.
But OpenGL is very complex, and video driver updates come out all the time with fixes or enhanced OpenGL functionality. Some work better than others, and bugs in the drivers can result in some very strange effects. Sometimes new bugs are introduced.
Edit - Preferences - Performance, uncheck [ ] Use OpenGL Drawing. If this helps, your video drivers likely have bugs. They may be latest, in which case you'll need to wait for an update. Or get a different video card.
It is also possible that with OpenGL Drawing enabled, changing the Advanced settings can help.
-Noel

Clone Stamp Acting Weird

Clone Stamp behaving oddly. I Alt + Click to sample image and then click to paint. When I do this, the cursor fills with the sampled image, which changes as I move the cursor to reflect the moving sample point, but the tool won't actually paint any pixels. I click and drag, but the pixels don't change. Usually when I use this tool, the cursor doesn't show a preview of the sampled image, so I don't know if that's another odd behavior or simply an option that I wasn't aware of which got activated inadvertently.
Has anyone else had this problem? Can anyone explain it and/or offer a solution? I've searched the forum, but the suggested solution (restetting the tool) hasn't worked and this issue has turned a quick and easy task into a headache which has consumed my entire morning. My sincere thanks in advance for any assistance.

Your probably seeing the clone source overlay.
Go to Window>Clone Source and either uncheck Show Overlay
or just check clipped if you want the overlay to clip to the brush size.
MTSTUNER

I have just upgraded to Yosemite and now Photoshop Elements freezes when using spot healing or clone stamp, is there an update due?

I have just updated to OSX10.10 Yosemite and now Elements freezes when using spot healing or clone stamp.

If you are using track pad, please use mouse and see if your issue is resolved.
Moreover, this issue has been resolved in PSE 13. You can give it atry as well.
Thanks!!

Could not use the clone stamp tool because the area to clone has not been defined

Freshly installed Elements 10. Can not use the option-mouse click to define an area for the clone stamp. The error I get is:
Could not use the clone stamp tool because the area to clone has not been defined (option-click to define a source point).
New Mac Mini. Had the same problems in Elements 9 so I installed the 10 trial. Is this a key binding error? Did not have this issue with Elements 9 on my Mac Air or my Windows 7 system.
I'm not a newbie and know how to use the clone tool. I won't say I'm an expert so if it's something related to layers please throw out some ideas.

This problem came back up. I hadn't used PSE since last November and was frustrated to run into it again. I don't think it's a layers issue afterall.
I use a wireless keyboard and mouse on Mini and mouse on Air, although keyboard for Air is upstairs at a desk with monitor for occasional use. Regardless blue tooth is on for these devices. Problem exists. Turn bluetooth off on Air and the problem is gone. It must be related to option key when bluetooth is on, I guess some different mapping. Even when I have bluetooth on and try to use Option key on the Air keyboard it does not work.
So now where do I look for configs to check?

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