Clone Stamp...what happened???

Dear Adobe...why do you always have to mess with a good thing? I went to use the clone stamp for the first time since installing CS4...it's become very, very weird! A strange squggly line around the brush and some strange visible area appearing under the brush itself whenever you move it anywhere. I don't mind changes but it seems like things get changed just for the sake of changeing them.

If you read the Help page you would realise you can turn that behaviour off.
In fact it is vastly improved!
When CS4 came out I spent a lot of time reading articles and watching the videos here: http://www.adobe.com/support/photoshop/
And on Adobe TV here:  http://tv.adobe.com/#
It was time well spent and in the long run saved time that would have been wasted struggling with the new features.

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