Cs6 missing clone tool

I only have a pattern stamp tool can't seem to find a clone tool anywhere... I thought it had both. when I click on the pattern stamp there is only that tool nothing else to select...is it a setting under the pattern tool? or is it somewhere else completely?

The clone stamp tool should be grouped in the same slot in the toolbox as the pattern stamp tool.
Click and hold on the pattern stamp tool icon in the toolbox to reveal to hidden tools, the clone stamp tool in your case.
This cs5, but cs6 is the same in regards to the clone stamp tool in the toolbox.

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Missing clone tool

Photoshop Elements 11 which was recently purchased does not have a clone tool on the toolbar. Where is it hiding?

First be sure you're in Expert mode. Click the word Expert at the top of the main editor window to go there, if you aren't. The clone stamp should be in the Enhance section of the toolbox, the middle icon on the right side. It shares a slot with the pattern stamp so you may see that instead. If you do, click it and then choose the clone stamp in the tool options.

CS6 Clone tool opacity problem

I am familiar with the operation of the clone tool in previous versions of Photoshop.... However after upgrading to CS6 I am having a problem with the functionality of the clone tool.
Basically when using the clone tool when its set to 100% opacity & flow, it looks as though the clone tool is only set to 50% opacity.
I'm not sure if there is a setting I am not aware of that can fix this... I am using the default configuration that came with the program.
My previous version was CS3... clone tool worked perfectly there... I dont understand why the same tool doesnt perform the same way with the same apparent settings.
If anyone has a simple solution I would love to hear it.
Thanks,
Marc

You must be using a brush preset that has those settings (wet edges & build-up) enabled in the brush panel.
Not all the brushes have those settings enabled in the the brush panel unless you were to lock those settings or just changing the tip shape.
Also in the the brush panel there is only the option to set the tip shape, unlike cs3 that has both tip shape and brush presets in the same panel.
Cs6 uses a separate panel called Brush Presets for changing the presets.
In cs6 Build Up is the same as Airbrush on in cs3.
Transfer is what Other Dynamics was in cs3

CS6 clone tool

The new clone tool in CS6 shows you what you will be transferring to the photo. I find this distracting at times. Is there any way to revert to the original use of the clone tool where the transferred portion does not show up?

You're welcome. I'm more into New Age instrumental/electronic/ambient, as it's less distracting while working, but I get your meaning.
-Noel

Photoshop CS6 clone tool not working

My son banged on my keyboard while I was in the middle of editing a photo using the clone tool. Now the tool is looks as though it's working when I'm sampling an area but when I go to change the designated area it isn't doing anything. And it's got a bright white spot in the circle. Help please!

The clone tool suddenly stopped working today. I read all the posts and did everything mentioned. I went back to CS5 and it works fine. I did notice in PS CC the clone tool sets the brush in TRANSFER to pen pressure. I can turn that off and lock it, but it will immediately turn it back on when I use the clone tool. It was working fine one second then stopped. It is working VERY lightly even though set to 100%. I discovered this by creating a new document with black and white and cloning there.
What happened?
I did have a CC update just before this happened. I did reset everything, turn everything on and off, turn off the Graphics Processor, turn off every other application, updated the driver for the waccom tablet... all to no avail.
Any solutions? I shall have to go back to CS5. Don't want to. HELP!

Clone tool

OK, I need help. I just can't use the clone tool. I had a big blob of mold in a complicated place so I needed to use multiple clonings. After 2 or 3 I got totally confused with a mess of circles of various sorts everywhere. I can get rid of them by going to loupe view, but as soon as I click on clone, they are all there again. I can't work in this mess. Heal won't work because it's in a complicated area. Am I missing something here?
So back to PS for me!

I don't see any remove spots button. I can see that I can use delete but it seems to undo the action. I want the action performed, I just want to be able to see the area to do more.
It also looks like heal works quite differently from the Photoshop CS2 spot healing brush. PS says: "The Spot Healing Brush automatically samples from around the retouched area." In LR, I see a circle that it's going to copy from with both clone and heal. In fact, I can't see any difference between them in LR. Did I screw up my LR?
Here's what LR says:
Clone Applies the sampled area of the photo to the selected area.
Heal Matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled area to the selected area.
What's the difference? They look the same when I use them.

Can't find how to adjust quality of clone tool

I can't figure out how to adjust the quality of the clone tool, it has very large pixels now - can anyone help?

Noel, Nancy,
Here is an enlarged example of a cloned image showing the problem I'm having. I was on the phone for 1/1/2 hours, and even shared the screen with Adobe, they were useless!
Hopefully you can see the very large pixels around the edge of the cloned area. I can't figure out how to make them smooth (smaller) like the image I cloned from.
I just bought CS6, new and unregistered. It's installed on a MacBook Pro, OS 10.8.5. I've been using Photoshop Elements 11 with no similar problems for a while, but I wanted to upgrade my capabilities to the full version of Photoshop.
Maybe you could also suggest a good Photoshop tutorial to get me up and running?
Thanks for any help you can offer, Mike

How do I keep the paint and clone tools from removing the background on the composition?

I am trying to remove handling wires from a Muppet video. I double click on the composition (mov file) and open the layer panel. I can get the brush, clone and eraser to work just fine and everything looks great until I play the preview. I can see all my strokes on the original movie composition. For example, the white showing in the frame below.
Since I am very new to AE, I would imagine that I am missing a setting, but it seems like I have tried all of them and nothing is working.
I am using CS5, version 10. Using the normal mode and the RGBA channel on single frame. I appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks!

Hi Rick,
I am trying to remove handler wires that can be seen on Elmo. This is an
assignment for an online class. Unfortunately, I asked this question early
last week of the instructor and he has not responded. We are required to use
the clone, paint or eraser for the exercise. Thanks for the tip regarding the
CC Simple Wire Removal tool. That will come in handy in the future. The
original clip of the Muppets does have a black transparent background. I
changed the composition settings so that I could better see the wires. Some
of the wires are just over the background and some are over a part of his
clothes. I can see my strokes when I toggle the transparency grid. I will
try the clone tool on the alpha channel and see if that works. If that is not
what I should be doing, please let me know. Thanks for your help.
I'm not really clear on what you are trying to do. If you're painting on RGBA
and you paint with a white brush you will end up with a white stroke on the
layer. All channels will be white.
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If you're painting with a white stroke using Alpha then you will paint white
on the alpha channel so there will be nothing changed on the layer.
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If you are painting with a black stroke using Alpha then you will paint a hole
in the layer which will allow the layer below to show through, but if you're
painting on RGB or RGBA then you'll end up with a black stroke on the image.
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If you want to paint out the wires then you must either use the clone tool or
make the brush the same color as your background. It looks like you have a
cream colored background so your paint tool must be the same color. If you
have wires over any other color, say over the body of one of the Muppets, then
you must carefully use the clone tool. Your screenshot looks like you're just
painting with a white brush. I'm assuming that your Comp BC color is white
(not usually a good idea) and that there is really no hole in your footage.
You can check that out by clicking on the Toggle Transparency Grid or by
dropping another layer below your footage.
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Another option to remove the wires would be to use the CC Simple Wire Removal
tool. It works amazingly well on some shots.
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Clone tool - why does it darken in layers?

Some years ago I used to use an old version of PS at work. It was before the CSs but I can't remember the version. When I used the clone tool it would simply clone the area with the same tonal depth and I used it a lot. I now have CS6 and when I use the tool whatever I clone will darken over existing tones, as layers, and not blend in. I hope that makes sense! Is there a setting so it clones at the same tonal depth and not layer-up?
Cheers,
Alex

Judging from the checkerboard patterns in your layer thumbnails, it looks like you're painting on layers with partial transparency.
Cloning partially transparent pixels over other partially transparent pixels makes them increase in opacity. This is true with all versions of Photoshop, going way back. I just did this with Photoshop 6.0.
Perhaps you could separate the layer into its pixels and maintain the transparency separately in a mask, though this is going to mean that you may have to do some extra work to get the layer to look right. Or you could remove the transparency entirely and set your layer to Multiply blending, which if it's substantially white will darken the places you paint.
-Noel

When using clone tool, the NORMAL mode has disappeared. How can I reset to get normal back???

I have searched and cannot find a solution for this. The NORMAL mode for the Clone tool (at the top in options) has disappeared. The top two are dissorve and behind. I cannot find out how to reset and don't know what I did to make the "normal mode" option disappear from menu. Please help! Thanks, Jeanne

Sounds like the scroll bar is missing. I've seen a few posts about this happening with the brush tool. Bug?
It can be worked around by using the blend mode shortcuts.
Shortcut key combos to rotate through blend modes
Select the tool (clone tool) then press alt + shift + N to get normal blend mode if on Windows. If on a Mac change that shortcut to opt + shift + N.
Dissolve is probably also missing. The window's shortcut for that if needed is alt + shift + I. On Mac, use opt + shift + I.
Alternately, you can rotate through the blend modes by using the shortcut key combo alt + shift + + on Windows. On Mac, that shortcut will be opt + shift + +. You can also substitute - for the + in that combo to rotate up through the blend mode list instead of down through the blend mode list.
The above shortcut combos work smoothest if you hold in the alt + shift (opt + shift) keys together before you press the letter or + or - key.
These shortcut work combos with any tool that uses a blend mode settings...

When I try to open my AI CS6 "missing required plugins" and "PDF Format.aip" comes up I click ok and the application stops. Not opening What can I do?

When I try to open my AI CS6 "missing required plugins" and "PDF Format.aip" comes up I click ok and the application stops. Not opening What can I do?

Matilda,
You may need to reinstall, using the full three step way:
Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.
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Clone tool causing Aperture to freeze...

Has anyone else experienced Aperture 'freezing' when trying to use the clone tool on anything (it seems) other than a black background? When I try to erase extraneous background 'stuff' by cloning a black area, it works fine. But when I try to, say, clone an area of color in order to erase a black background, Aperture freezes (and stays that way until I force quit) for as long as twenty minutes, sometimes.
Am I missing a setting somewhere...?

I appreciate your response very much, but I have a hard time believing it is hardware or OS related, for many reasons...
1) It only happens when I am using the clone tool in a specific circumstance, and not across the board generally.
2) It doesn't happen when I use the other side of the clone tool, the repair tool, of which the only difference is a radio button and software; they're both in the same control window.
3) Something I neglected to mention in my first post was the behavior of the clone tool, when cloning a black background, accepting the first adjustment, but then claiming for the second adjustment that I hadn't option-clicked to define the point of cloning. It seems to happen every time I do this specific operation. All other adjustments, within that specific use of the clone tool, work as advertised; the second adjustment is the only one that can't remember what I selected for the first one.
4) SInce my first post, Aperture has begun to behave quite weirdly indeed. I have some pictures of a predominately pink-ish hue, that in making adjustments, all is well until I get to noise reduction. Then, upon adding noise reduction, the preview looks great but the browser view looks like a photo negative and the version export is a photo negative. It was only through investigation that I discovered what the offending adjustment was. So FAR, it has only happened to a few pictures, and others of the same predominate hue adjusted normally.
I don't understand what is going on, but it is disturbing, and I am becoming rather upset.
These problems are a relatively new occurrence, within the last week or so, and I can't have my editor of choice starting to go south on me, as I'm in the middle of a large batch of editing.
Has anyone else experienced these types of problems...?
William

CS5 , the clone tool problem!

I have noticed that in
version 12 of CS5 that the clone tool no longer accepts negative values, so on cant clone a
missing limb without having to copy, paste & filp. WHY?

Sorry Im not certain I understand your point? Are you saying this
oversight will not exist in the final release version, if you are then
how can you Know? Otherwise my point is to highlight an issue which can be debated and corrected if need be

Clone tool broke

I have cs6 and I am a beginner. I was using the clone stamp tool quite a bit and now it is no longer working. I click on the tool, use the alt key to select what I want to clone and when I move my mouse the whole photo moves and I cannot do anything. What is wrong? I have exited program and rebooted computer but nothing helps.
I have beginner blues because my new program is broke. Please help.

Hi,
I don't think the clone tool is broken.
You probably just have the Clone Source Overlay on.
Go to Window>Clone Source where you can choose some different settings.
You might try the Clipped option, but one of the others might suit you better.
more info:
http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/photoshop/using/retouching-repairing-images.html

Clone Tool leaves white dot

While trying to use cloning tool, it would leave a trail of white & would not clone the designated area!
What happening here, is this happening to any one else? Is this fixable?
If I buy the full version, I don't want my money waisted on a program that doesn't work properly!
Suggestions anyone!

I assure you it's possible to successfully clone things in Photoshop CS6. I'd be willing to bet "Test the Clone Tool" is somewhere close to the first page of Adobe's system test procedures.
You may have a specific problem on your system - or may be accidentally using Photoshop improperly.
Can you be a bit more specific about what it is you're doing, and describe your system? Ideally take a screenshot and post it here, showing your working environment when you reproduce the problem.
One thing always to check when you're having any kind of Photoshop issue is that you have all your system software updated (OS, display driver, etc.)
-Noel

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