PSE8 Clone Tool Broken...

Today, the Clone Tool and Spot Healing Brush fail to work. I can select a spot to clone and the "+" will display when I try to drop the clone, but nothing happens. Mode Normal. Opacity set at 100%. Tried several .JPEG files. Tried PSE7 and it worked!
Rebooted. Same thing.
Then it worked!
What happened?
BTW, I get a Win 7 message when I launch PSE8 that it failed to load properly and that it will close the app...but it doesn't?

Well, it didn't work long! Just a few minutes later it stopped working. I noticed that other tools were also not working: Paintbrush, Eraser, etc. But the Text tool and the Rectangle tool worked. ???
I may try reinstalling?

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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...).
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Photoshop: values for type, brush, crop, lasso etc tools broken on Leopard

I posted this in answer to another thread, but decided that it may be helpful to some Photoshop users if it had its own topic:
The following is a technote copied from Adobe's forums, regarding the performance of several menus for key tool settings in Photoshop CS3 running in Leopard:
*Changing values for type, brush, crop, lasso etc tools broken on Leopard*
*Kirsten Harris - 08:58pm Nov 15, 2007 Pacific*
Adobe and Apple are working closely to provide a fix to a known issue running Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended on Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5.1). Currently, when you enter values in numerical fields to set sizes for the brush, crop, marquee, lasso, type, and other Photoshop CS3 tools, those values revert to previously entered values when you try to apply them.
# While we have identified workarounds for some of the affected tools, this issue prevents people from working as precisely and intuitively as they expect. Providing a fix to customers is a top priority. Please note the following: The fix will be provided through an update to Mac OS X Leopard. Consequently, it is not part of the Photoshop CS3 (10.0.1) update.
# Apple is collaborating closely with us to get this fix incorporated into a Mac OS X Leopard update. No public schedule is available at this time, but both companies understand the urgency of this fix.
# As soon as the appropriate update to Mac OS X Leopard is available, we will immediately alert our Photoshop users.
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Well, that's interesting! Here I thought the problem with my CS1 was just that it was too old, running in Rosetta and all, and would be fixed when I get my Xmas treat of CS3. Wonder if that means when the fix comes from Apple it will also fix the same problem in CS1? Of course, by then I'll probably have CS3.... Thanks for posting this, I would have been mighty annoyed to have plonked down my 200 bucks only to discover that I had the same bugs.
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When I try to use the clone tool a window opens saying there is a program error. Is there a way to fix this? I was wondering if reinstalling the program was necessary or if there may be some other way around the problem.
Thanks in advance.
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Barbara, I had a reply from Adobe help centre. I haven't been able to try tis yet, but hoefully it will help you.
Joe
Kindly follow this method to use clone stamp tool in PSE8.
1. select the layer you would like to work on.
2. select clone stamp tool form tool box.
3. Press ALT+ left mouse click , to choose the area.
4. now start painting.
NOTE: I believe you are not selecting the area by pressing Alt+left
mouse click.
Kindly read the help file link to learn more about this tool.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/8.0/Win/Using/WSae2ea3b149
d0c3591ae939f103860b3d59-7ed8_WIN.html
In-case you are using the correct work-flow however you are still
getting the error message then I would advice you to recreate Pref
erences for Photoshop Element 8 by following this method.
1. close Photohsop Element (if it is open).
2. press ShiftCtrlAlt these 3 buttons on your keyboard , do not
release these 3 buttons and launch Photoshop Element.
3. do not release the three buttons and click on edit to launch editor.
A small window will appear for asking you to choose yes or no [ you may
now release the three buttons]
4. choose yes when it ask you to delete preferences.
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:37:32 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Clone tool: program error window (El. 8.0)
When PSE goes whacky the first thing to do is to reset the preferences. Quit the editor (quit PSE if on a mac), then restart it while holding down CTRLALTShift (CommandOptionShift on a mac). Keep holding the keys till you see a window asking if you want to delete the settings file. You do.
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I have beginner blues because my new program is broke. Please help.

Hi,
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http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/photoshop/using/retouching-repairing-images.html

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The clone tool is exhibiting strange behavior on a friends installation of Elements 8 on Windows 7.
Sometimes the clone tool refuses to clone, other times it will clone in over dark areas but not light areas. We tried resetting to factrory settings. This worked for a while be reverted to the strange behavior after a couple of days.
It's on the correct layer and the mode setting for the clone tool is Normal and when it works in a darker area it will make it even darker but will not darken a very light (white?) area.
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My husband uses adobe cs5. The clone tool isn't working and after resetting the tools adobe bridge now goes to picasa. How can we make the clone tool work and have bridge go to cs5 not picasa?

A lot more information about your hardware and software is needed.
BOILERPLATE TEXT:
If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CC", but something like CC2014.v.2.2) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
a screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too,
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
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Using Clone tool in Photoshop CS causes F9 to randomly activate

I'm not sure if this is a Photoshop problem or an OSX problem. I have posted on the Adobe site, but there was only one response and that didn't tell me much. And then I thought: it might actually be an OSX problem.
When using the clone tool in Photoshop CS, after an hour or so, under circumstances that I have not been able to replicate, PS starts to activate F9 on a continuing basis. Sometimes only once (all open windows appear separated); sometimes twice in quick succession; sometimes three or four times. The effect is exactly the same as pressing F9 1, 2, 3 or 4 times every couple of minutes.
I get around the problem by shutting all other windows (then the PS window I'm working in doesn't get changed - I just click on it to bring it back if it has been F9ed); or if the F9s get too annoying I shut down PS and start again.
Is this activation of F9 likely to be:
* a PS bug (somehow it is activating F9)?; or
* an OSX bug (PS does something and OSX triggers F9)?
I have not had the problem occur anytime except cloning in PS. I doubt it has anything to do with Expose (as the PS poster thought) because I do not use Expose.
The problem appears to me to be almost random. It might be in my particular setup, but I suspect that PS and/or OSX are going slightly haywire in a very esoteric way under certain vague circumstances. How's that for a non-specific description of the behaviour

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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.
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Message title was edited by: Brett N

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Running Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP Professional 160GB; 77GB Free
All of a sudden after more than a year functioning fine my clone stamp tool stopped working. Everything else is working fine. I reinstalled CS3 and the tool worked fine then, after a reboot, it stopped working again.
I am not supertech knowledgeable, so other than running a complete scan with my anti-virus program and a Windows Defender scan, neither of which identified any problems, I'm at a loss.
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