Pshop Clone Tool - Trailing Cursor missing?

I could have sworn... that when I used the Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool, I used to have a second "trailing" cursor.
What I mean is, once I'd chosen my source point (opt/click) and began dragging in the new area, I'd have usual the circle brush showing the new pixels as I clone, plus, as I paint, I'd have a second "source" cursor following the cloning cursor in perfect alignment. By watching the source/trailing cursor, I'd know when to stop dragging the clone brush to avoid cloning a new part of the image that I didn't want.
The second/trailing cursor has disappeared; it's been gone for a while now. I've futzed with settings in the Clone Source palette and resetting the tool to no avail. Using Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 on Mac 10.6.8 iMac with standard bluetooth mouse. Thanks...

So, you do not see the cross-hair source cursor?
Sometimes, especially if the source is a solid, mid-value color, it can be near impossible to see.
Try resetting PS preferences by holding down Shift+Opt+Command AS you launch Photoshop. You'll get a small dialog to ok resetting the preferences to confirm you did it right.

Similar Messages

CS4: Clone tool cursor throws shadow under cursor

Well, it's not really a shadow. It appears to be a sample of where I OPTION-CLICK. All good and fine and I guess it must be thought of as an improvement, but for me it makes the clone tool unworkable because the 'shadow' shadows my clone cursor everywhere, blocking out what's underneath so I can't see what I want to select and where I want to clone to.
Q: How do I turn off the shadow?

Tool settings are always saved after restart, and this one is no exception.
Yes its a useful feature for certain types of work, but it probably shouldn't be the default. There should also be a check box in the Options Bar for this, and maybe a keyboard shortcut toggle also. On high res files it slows things down quite a lot.

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.

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.

Help neede regarding photoshop clone tool

I am absolutely new to photoshop and got a strange problem, i dont even know that is it a problem or just a default behaviour...
Whenever i use the clone tool, i press alt and select the area to clone... but when i release the alt key, a plus marker appears with the circle used to print the copied area, just below it. So whenever i click to apply the copied part, another area just below it is copied again. So when i drag the cursor along the image, each movement creates a new copy. I cant paste a single area to other parts...
So can anyone plz tell me how to get rid of that extra cursor....

If you go to Window > Clone Source you get a new panel.
In there uncheck the tick box next to Show Overlay.
That should get rid of the trailing cursor.
If it doesn't, maybe you could post a screen shot using the little camera icon in the reply box.

Clone Stamp & Paintbrush cursor not displaying on image

Hey there,
When attempting to edit a photo (on PS CS3), the cursor for the paintbrush and clone stamp tools does not display on the image - it'll come up when the mouse isn't directly over it (ie around the borders, & workspace etc, but not on the image itself).
All other tools the cursor will display (eg marque and crop etc).
Is anyone able to offer any help on the subject?
Thanks very much.

If you are using a Wacom, keep the pen well away from the tablet when using the mouse and vice versa.
Try unplugging the Wacom – if the problem disappears, update the drivers.
Or
Try resetting the tools from the little drop-down menu in the Options Bar.
If all else fails, try resetting your preferences as described in the FAQ.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0
You either have to physically delete (or rename) the preference files or, if using the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift method, be sure that you get a confirmation dialog.
This resets all settings in Photoshop to factory defaults.
A complete uninstall/re-install will not affect the preferences and a corrupt file there may be causing the problem.

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.

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.
Â
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.
Â
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.
Â
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.
Â
Another option to remove the wires would be to use the CC Simple Wire Removal
tool. It works amazingly well on some shots.
>

CS5 64 bit Clone Tool Problem

If I use the clone tool or the healing brush in CS5 64 bit, after selecting the source point with the alt key whenever I move the cursor a copy of the whole mage moves, it looks like I am moving a duplicate layer. I read a similar post in the Mac forum and the response was to de-select the show overlay in the Clone Source tool box, this works but takes away a very nice feature.
The problem does not happen in the 32 bit version.

Thank you very much that did the trick, much appreciated.

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...

Elements 6 clone tool

Sometimes when I hit the clone tool, it will not give the round size . It will only be a cross. I can not tell what I am doing with this. Then later it will go back to showing my point as a circle which I can change size . Why does it not show the round size all the time? What do I do to get it back ? Thanks.

Turn off your caps lock key. That's the toggle for the crosshairs, what adobe calls the "precise cursor."

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

Incomplete sampling circle associated with clone tool

Is the video card or driver for video card the source of the problem where less than a full circle appears when using the clone tool in Photoshop?

The cursor doesn't show a full circle?
Usually that's a video card driver bug (most notably older NVidia drivers) -- updating the driver from the GPU maker's website should solve it.
A few times we've seen cursor resizing utilities cause problems (when they don't resize correctly).

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.

Pshop Clone Tool - Trailing Cursor missing?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for