Healing and Clone tool

When using the healing and clone toll, the brush frequently appears some other spot than where I am digitizing on the photo. I have tried new mouse, restarting, etc. If I open the same photo in elements 9, it works perfectly.

Try re-setting the Preferences: create a Desktop shortcut for the PSE Editor, then hold down the Ctrl+Alt+Shift keys while double-clicking on the shortcut to start the program. Answer "Yes" to delete the Preferences.
Ken

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PSE8 - Need help with bizarre selection problem with spot healing and clone tools

In using clone stamp and spot healing brush--. When I Alt click for my sample I get entire image---acting as if I'm moving a layer---whether I'm working on a single or multi-layer image. This is PSE8 3 gig ram windows ----Lenovo Core II duo P8400 @ 2.26 GHZ with ATI 256 meg graphics
This sure is fun!!!
I'm trying to get rid of an old numbering imprint on a film(not digital) image.

Actually the overlay option is helpful. It shows the region that you are copying - and i dont think thats causing the issue.
The issue is because you dont have the clip option checked along with Overlay.
Just make sure you have both Overlay and Clipped options checked and you would not see this problem anymore.
Regards,
Pri
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CS2 Eye dropper and clone tool not picking up correct colour from image.

Hello everyone, Can anyone help me please. I have an iMac with 0SX 10.4.4.
Plenty of Ram and hard drive space. In using CS2 the eyedropper and clone tools will not pick up the exact same colour from the image that I require. It is always lighter in shade and has on occasion been white. Any help in solving this problem will be much appreciated.
Yours in anticipation, Geoff Walter.

>The eyedropper is picking-up the color as rendered in RGB on your Monitor...
Really? Not from the pixels in the file? So the same pixels are reported with different values depending on monitor setup? This is about how the eyedropper reports pixel values, not about how they are rendered to the screen, is that correct?
Just to be sure here, this is so even with the eyedropper set to point sample?
Al
Edit: Or do you mean that this is a known problem with 0SX 10.4.4. and Photoshop, in which the values are picked up from the monitor and not from the file data?

Installed Photoshop Elements 10 on new computer and clone tool smears dark spots around photos. Spot healing brush smears dark colors around. Lighten and contrast work ok. Have deleted program and reinstalled but same problems.

Anybody have suggestions as I am stumped?

On the clone tool's option bar, top left, click on the little triangle. Since you are having a problem with two tools, suggest that you reset all tools. Let us know whether or not this resolves the issue.

CS5 Healing brush & Clone tool Strange Problems

When I option click a sample point to heal or clone, then release the mouse or pen, the sampled area remains in the brush diameter even though I haven't healed or cloned anything yet. Just moving the mouse or pen around includes the image of the sampled area all over the image. What gives?
Wasn't always like this, just last few days. For example if I select and area with lips on a face, then move the brush to the cheek, the image of the lips remains in the brush area. Very frustrating. Any help would be much appreciated. This is with both the healing brush and clone stamp tools.
Mac OS 10.6.3, MacPro 2 X 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel 16GB ram NVIDIA GE-Force 8800 GT graphics card running CS5 in 32 bit mode.

That is a preference that was added in Photoshop CS4 to preview the cloned area (makes it easier to align).
Go to the Clone Source palette, and turn off "Show Overlay" if you don't want to see the preview.
You might want to take some time to read up on the Clone Source palette, and the options it offers -- it can really speed up a lot of common cloning tasks.

Healing Brush/Clone Tools Frustration

I am having an impossible time trying to effect this change in a product shot.
Please see Before/After photo attached.
I cannot remove the label text on the left and right side of the jar without smearing the edges.
I'm using the Healing Brush and the Clone Tool. Obviously, I'm either not using it/them correctly, or I'm approaching this task totally wrong.
Is this task even do able?
Thanks in advance.

Chris, thank you! That was a HUGE learning tip. I had no idea I could set Selections and work within those boundaries. It offers additional challenges to blend areas after you remove the Selection area, but those are easy fixes compared to what it does for you up against those edges.
Thank you!

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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Lightroom 5 - Advanced Healing Brush and Visualization tool | What's New in Lightroom 5 | Adobe TV

Discover the new enhancements to Lightroom’s Advanced Healing Brush including the ability to heal and clone non-circular brush spots as well as remove easy-to-miss sensor dust using the new Visualization tool.
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Can the removal spots (circular) be resized like they could in LR 4?

Strange lines using healing brush/clone brush.

This happens to me all the time using the healing brush or cloning tool. I allready turned gpu accelleration off but it still exists! Also updated graphics card drivers. No go.
It exists on both machines, using different graphics cards and different cpu's.
I am using windows 8, windows 7 and photoshop cs6 extended.
It doesn't seem to be a gpu problem since i turned that off.
Hope someone can point me to a solution.

I've been running into this exact same problem with the healing/clone brush. Where do I go to turn off the "windowtabs" tool? I'm using PS CS6 with Win 7.
Update:
Googled WindowTabs tool. From what I found, I don't believe that I have this "tool" loaded on my puter. Searched my drives for windowtabs and found nothing. If it's not on my puter, something else is causing the issues with the PS healing brush/clone tools. In my situation, the brush "selects" other areas than I'm trying to fix, but not every time. Very frustrating, especially when you discover "damage" to parts of the image that can't be undone by going back far enough to undo the damage. I have to watch closely as I make my selections to make sure that the area I selected was actually done correctly. Love the tools, but I hate having my work flow slowed down by having to watch for their erratic behavior.
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Strange Effects When Using Erase & Clone Tools In CS4

I recently upgraded from Elements 8 to CS4 and I've noticed that I have started getting strange effects with both the erase and clone tools. When I have been working with either of these tools for a while I suddenly find that left clicking the mous will cause a spurious reaction in another part of my image. The erase tool erases strips and the clone tool clones other colours and areas. I suspect that it might be due to the amount of memory I'm using but advice would be appreciated. I am running Windows 7 and I have 4.00GB of physical memory and 11.8GB of virtual memory.
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I've found the solution to the problem, although it doesn't really please me because I've had to sacrifice the number of history states I can keep. I have reduced the number to 15 from 20 and the problem has gone away, which indicates that it's a memory problem. I'm going to slowly increase the number of states until the problem re-appears.
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Healing brush/Clone stamp tool and others very slow processing

Healing brush/Clone stamp tool and others very slow processing. System resources monitor shows only 700MB (of 5GB allocated to Photoshop) RAM and 30% CPU is used to perform such tasks as healing brush. Process bar comes up and is painfully slow to complete the task. I don’t understand why does Photoshop not use all the resources available/allocated? No other programs are running at the time, I have tried all the suggestions on this forum and all over the Google. My brand new system is: Intel I7 4770K overclocked to 4.3GHz, 8GB 1600 RAM, Samsung PRO 120GB SSD system drive, 100GB scratch disk. The photos I usually work on don’t exceed 20MB in size. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks

Thanks for the answer.
I have not mentioned the GPU because the processes I described (as far as I know) are not supposed to be using GPU resources. So far I have not been able to afford the GPU i want which is GTX770, so I use Intel 4600 built in graphics instead. To be honest I find, that 4600 graphics is quite powerful. I am able to play Mass Effect 3 on Full spec on max res without game slowing down. And Windows 7 64bit index score is 7.8 for the 4600 graphics. Overall index score is 7.8 on my PC righ now.
I'll try to get the Photoshop system info as soon as possible.
Thanks again.
Zee

LR 3.2 - Local adjustment brush and heal/clone tool broken

Hi,
After installing LR 3.2, the first thing I noticed is that it is much slower than the previous version (using XP Pro + 3GB memory and a speedy processor).
But the most terrible novelty of this version is that the Adjustment Brush is going berserk after a while:
It first slows down to a crawl, so slow that it's almost impossible to work with.
While working with it after a while, it starts to show random rectangular areas that are copies of other areas of the image that have nothing to do with the area I'm working on. This happens after a brush stroke. The Undo command makes these rectangular "patches" disappear.
From time to time, the whole image is flipped upside down (You can't believe it? Neither could I).
Eventually, afte a brush stroke, the sandclock mouse cursor is displayed and the program freezes (at this time it can be using over 1 GB of memory although I'm working on a single, standard EOS 5D image). The only way to stop this madness is to kill the process.
The Heal/Clone tool also shows a similar misbehavior.
I didn't have these problems with the previous version.

Ian,
Ian Lyons wrote:
Are you looking for help? If so then it would really useful if you provided some information on hardware, OS and what exactly are you doing when the system freezes. Also worth noting that applications very rarely (even badly coded apps) cause the hardware to crash. System crashes are more often than not due to bad device drivers or bad hardware that an application may expose.
I'm a software professional since PCs exist. I have enough experience to identify software problems when they appear. At least, I'm able to determine whether I have a hardware problem or if the software I'm using (or writing) is buggy. I have read many reports, many threads, many advice about these performance issues. I'm pretty sure that the problem is LR. I repeat: I do not have any performance issue when editing images in Bibble 5, Photoshop or DxO Optics Pro. BB5 is at least an order of magnitude faster than LR when editing images.When I use the Adjustment Brush in Camera Raw, there's absolutely no problem. My hardware is powerful enough and my installation is pretty clean (could it be powerful enough in Camera Raw and not in LR?). My OS is very stable. I have not seen a BSOD since years and all my applications are running flawlessly on this system (which includes image editing applications, software development tools, and many others...).
Users having various and very powerful systems (PC or Mac) are reporting the very same problems. Like Bruce, I'm convinced that this is not a hardware resource problem. We didn't have these problems with LR2 and LR3 was supposed to enhance performances. Version after version, it has now become unusable for me.
Drawing the conclusion that since many users don't have any performance issues, the problem must be on the user's side would be erroneous. The bug is in LR and may or may not appear depending on the circumstances. Any developer knows that a bug may or may not hit a given user depending on how she uses the software. I admit that these bugs are hard to fix. But LR has to be fixed, no doubt.
I profoundly regret that Adobe do not acknowledge this.

Spot heal/clone tool problem

Hello, I thought when I upgraded to LR4 that my problems with the spot tool would be a thing of the past. Unfortunately they are just as bad if not worse. I run on a Windows 7, 64 bit, 2.6 GHz, 6 GB RAM. Using the spot tool to clone or heal slows things down considerably (though I do notice a little slowing in general with version 4). The longer I use the tool, the worse it is. I start to get strange partial square shapes under the spot when I try to modify it in any way (e.g. move it a bit or change from heal to clone). I then need to delete the spot and start over to get rid of it. Results get uneven, and eventually the program freezes, with a clenched fist for the cursor, and I can't move any spots, or even click anything in the program (though the cursor does move). Any ideas what the problem could be? I do not want to use the tool at all now, which given how important it is, begs the question why am I even using this program to edit photos?

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I am using Lightroom 5 and am hapy about it, but recently I hav encountered a problem when trying to edit an image in another program, i.e. Elements. I used the clone tool, saved the result and went back to Lightroom to open the image there. I did find a

I am using Lightroom 5 and am hapy about it, but recently I hav encountered a problem when trying to edit an image in another program, i.e. Elements. I used the clone tool, saved the result and went back to Lightroom to open the image there. I did find a second copy, but this is identic with the one I already had in Lightroom, and I can see noe result of the clone process.

At the moment I would say it is uncertain whether Acrobat is completely ignoring the change, or whether the changes you are making aren't affecting the ink density. I have a suggestion for a test you could make to see which is the case.
When editing in Photoshop just add a box or mark on the image, for your tests.
- If this box does not appear in Acrobat, you know Acrobat is not seeing the edit
- If this box does appear in Acrobat, you know the problem is that your tool for changing ink densities is not taking effect.

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