Spot Healing Brush needs 'Current and Below' and 'Ignore Adjustment Layers'

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Spot healing brush issues in photoshop elements 11

I am new to photoshop elements 11. I am trying to use the spot healing brush. I select "content aware,' "sample all layers," and a brush, but I only get the cross hairs of the cursor, and not the black circle. My cursor preferences are currently at the default. I get a black line when I press the mouse key, but nothing changes in the photo. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
Sue

I found that I had some problematic brush settings. I've developed this checklist for when I have similar issues:
o Try changing the px on the brush slider in thespot healing tool
o Go to the BRUSH tool (B), change opacity asneeded (probably 100%), go to the brush settings drop down and change thehardness (again probably to 100%)
o Check that CAPS LOCK is NOT on
o Go to the center icon (lower right by the ?),drop down, then select "reset all Tools," then restart the photoeditor
o Then try to reset the editor preferences: Quitthe editor, restart it from the welcome screen while holding downctrlshiftalt, then say "yes" to delete the settings file
You don't have to do all of these things. They are just things to check when you have brush problems. So now I'm working OK. I hope that this works for you.
Sue

Spot/Healing Brush Tool?

I have used the Spot/Healing Brush in Lgtrm3 and now have Lgtrm 5; however, my Spot/Healing Brush in 5 does not work. I will click on the healing brush then adjust my brush size then click on the spot, then click "done". Nothing happens. Am I missing a step or is it the program?
Gentle Teacher

Rikk,
Thanks for the help. I didn't realize that there was an opacity slifer for theSpot Brush. I see that if I increase the feathering there are times when it seems to leave a ghost. Any ideas? Also, When removing spots why would you use a feather edge as opposed to a hard one and how much feathering should a person use? I realize that these questions may require more time than you have but any comment or suggestion would be appreciated.

Photoshop CC and 2014 spot healing brush tool causing blue screen on windows 8.1

Hi,
The problem is when I'm using spot healing brush tool soon as apply it it causing fatal error on my windows. I have all suite up to date.
please advice.

First thing to do is check you have all the latest device drivers for all your devices and all windows 8 updates. Printer drivers, Display Drivers, Network drivers etc. It is not possible for an Application program like Photoshop.exe to cause a Blue Screen. However Applications use devices and device drivers are able to do things application programs can not do.

I using windows seven for Photoshop and when I use the spot healing brush or the brush tool I get a cross hair and not the circle ?

How do I fix this issue? some time it works and the other times I get the cross hair

I know this post doesn't really help you guys, but I'm also using PSE9 on a Win7 Intel Quad Core Dell computer and the spot healing brush works fine. I only offer this post to indicate that it apparently is not a universal bug in PSE9. Perhaps an Adobe expert can jump in here and help. I can only offer that in Preferences I do have the RAM dialed up to 80%, but I don't think this is related to your problem.

Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)

Tried to remove some cables from an image using Russel Brown's video making use of the pen tool/path and the spot healing brush with content aware. I'm pretty sure I followed his tutorial exactly but it did not work satisfactorily. Are there any other tweaks I should be using to remove these cables and replace them with the background details?

Yes to all.
Silkrooster - Looks great! However, I believe spot healing brush was the first I tried and got smudgy results, especially in area of the locks where there is a lot of detail behind the cables. Found the patch tool works best, but not where there is a lot of detail behind the cables.
Fosse - Well, the bow of the ship going through the Panama Canal at 6 AM in the morning is a popular place, very crowded, and not one of them a photographer. I was lucky enough to get the last spot which was dead center, but in front of the cables. I tried to prevail on some people next to me to trade spots, but none were willing ($##$!!!&& b---ds) and they didn't even have cameras. However, will keep your suggestion in mind about taking two shots for the next time...and will have to get up earlier.
I think if I want to really make this work, I will have to do a lot of work, probably using a combination of all these methods.
Thanks to you all.
By the way, Re my question on screens without a reply button...when I click on a response, it appears without any reply button. How do I get a screen showing the reply button without entering a new question, cancelling out of it, and then clicking on a response, which is the only way I found to get a screen showing the reply button.

Delays with Wacom Intuos pen and spot healing brush

This problem has been discussed a lot both on Adobe forums and elsewhere, in conjunction with previous versions of LR. This thread is typical: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5272942. The gist of the problem is that the Wacom pen tool (not limited to Intuos tablets, by the way) is almost unusable with the spot healing brush -- LR freezes for many seconds when you try to reposition the selected replacement patch. It eventually catches up, but the delay makes this feature extremely hard to use. There seem to be no similar delays doing the same function with a mouse or touch interface.
Wacom is aware of reports of problems, and went so far as to include a "use Windows ink" checkbox on their latest Intuos driver, with the suggestion that you uncheck it to avoid these delays. I've done that, installed the latest Wacom and graphics drivers, and tried every tip anybody has suggested, to no avail.
Of course, I don't know whether this is a Wacom problem or a Lightroom problem, but it's certainly a problem to use them together. I had hoped that LR 5.2 RC would have fixed it, due to some references in the announcement of fixes related to the spot healing brush, but it's still there, no change at all.
Anybody have any ideas?
Windows 8 64-bit
Latest drivers for all devices

Well, here it is January 2014 and the problem is still around. I too, have tried everything I could find with no solution to the problem. Seems that Wacom is blaming Microsoft, which is probably where the blame belongs, but it seems that somewhere in Adobe, Wacom, and Microsoft someone could find a solution to this nagging problem. I took the statements by the Adobe people that once you tried a tablet you would neveragain be satisfied with a mouse as truth, but for now, I regret wasting my money on a tablet.

What is the difference between healing brush and spot healing brush?

Please tell me as fast as possible.

Key extract from Arpit's excellent link above:
Unlike the Healing Brush, the Spot Healing Brush doesn’t require you to specify a sample spot. The Spot Healing Brush automatically samples from around the retouched area.

Spot Healing Brush sampling from unwanted region -- below the target area!

Hello everyone,
I have some text in a speech bubble I'm trying to get rid of. So far, I've filled the white characters with background color. To smooth the character outlines and to blend the somewhat gradient color, I'm trying to use the Spot Healing Brush, but it is not doing the job at hand because it is acting like the standard Healing Brush, sampling from a different region even though I"m not ALT clicking first.
What am I missing here? I'm really puzzled with the Spot Healing Brush misbehavior.
Thanks!
-Ron

Without seeing the image and brush behaviour we need to guess, plus we don't know what version of Photoshop you are using.
Take a look at the Options bar. If you have 'Proximity Match' checked, tray changing it to Content aware. Is Sample all layers checked, and could it be picking up information from an underlying layer? Hmmm... I'm getting too tired to think clearly (1am here) so that'll do for now.

My spot healing tool gets stuck and freezes and won't keep up with the curser. I'm using LR4.

My spot healing tool gets stuck and freezes and won't keep up with the curser. I'm using LR4.

Remove the song in question from the sync list and see if the rectifies the problem.
If it does, then iTunes believes the song no longer exists on your drive and that will need to be corrected.

Spot healing brush alignment problem

Using Photoshop CS4 (11.0) on a Mac with 10.5.6. Sometimes the spot healing brush works as expected. However, after working for a while, the alignment seems to be off--I hover the cursor over the spot I want to retouch, but when I click the mouse the area retouched is a bit (1/4" or so) below the spot healing brush cursor. If I quite and restart Pshop the problem goes away. This is with the spot healing brush--not the one where you need to select where to clone from. Is something wrong, or is there a new feature I don't know about that's causing this? I've used the spot healing brush quite a bit with CS3.
If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate hearing them. This is getting frustrating.

I think you are talking about a different issue here. This problem is not specific to the spot healing brush.
@ OP: The brush alignment problem is very real and I have it frequently when working with larger files (approximately >500MB in memory). I have two macs, a macbook (GMA X3100) and a mac pro (ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT). So two completely different hardware arrangements that have the exact same problem.This is clearly not a problem with graphics cards.
Drawing with any tool like: brush (any brush - dodge/burn, blur, eraser etc.), lasso (any lasso), line, crop tool etc. will result in a misalignment of about 0,5 cm directly downward. However, clicking on menus and dialogue boxes works as expected. Switching off OpenGL features in PS WILL NOT PREVENT THE PROBLEM (if I shout, maybe Adobe will hear...). The same problem appears whether I'm using a Wacom tablet or a mouse. It even appears when the Wacom driver is uninstalled.
So, if Adobe is not acknowledging the problem it's safe to assume it will be featured in CS5 as well.
@ Jim: Sorry, I would have posted in the other thread but your link does not work anymore.

Spot healing brush preset

Hello. I have a couple of hot pixels on the sensor and removing them individually from each picture is time consuming. Is there a way to apply the spot healing brush on one picture where needed and copy the brush strokes onto the other pictures since the spots remain stuck in exactly the same places on all images?
In other words I'd like to batch-heal all images at once.
Thank you,
David

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deedeecz wrote:
do I need to open the image as a smart object to follow your guide?
So, first I have to make a selection/s and then Edit - Fill - ... ? If so, which tool would be best to make my tiny selections?
No, it doesn't have to be a smart object.
I'm kind of envisioning tying an action to a key that you can press when you're editing your document and want to make the change, but how you want to use it is entirely up to you.
Actions can seem a bit geeky, but once you get the hang of recording your steps as actions, and get used to the editor in the Actions panel, they can be quite useful for making repeatable functions that can be surprisingly complex. To record an action, name it appropriately then just do the operations you want to repeat on a representative image, then stop the recording. Brush strokes won't record, but most everything else will.
Since hot pixels affect probably 1 or maybe as many as 9 pixels, I'd suggest just using the rectangular marquee tool to make the very small selections (you can, of course, make more than one by holding down the shift key). Note that this assumes you'll be using the same sized images each time, and as I mentioned the locations will be different for a portrait and a landscape image.
Have fun with actions!
-Noel

Spot Healing Brush WOES

I can't use the spot healing brush. Whenever I try, a little notice appears at the bottom of my screen that says there are new capabilities available for the spot healing brush "click here". I've clicked and all it was is a tutorial video. I've watched the video numerous times, but the notice still will not go away. How do I get the use of my spot healing brush back?

Try selecting the tool and then do a reset (see image below).

Photoshop Elements 9 shutting down when using the Spot Healing Brush

Hello! I recently downloaded and
installed the PSE 9 on my PC. Obviously I wanted to check out it's possibil
ities and especially the Spot Healing Brush. The program seems to work fine until I want to use the Spot Healing Brush
As soon as I try to apply something to a picture, I get the message something is wrong with "photoshopeditor.exe" and needs to shut down the program.
That's really annoying and hopefully someone may have the answer and solution why it does this. I run the program on Windows XP (SP3).
I really appreciate your help. Best regards, CharlesHHH.

Hello MTSTUNER,
Somehow my post showed up twice. Anyway...just updated to 9.01 and problem solved!!
Thanks so much for your quick feedback. Much appreciated. Will now go into exploring its possibilities.
Best regards,
CharlesHHH

Spot Healing Brush Help

Has someone begun a list of how to get the most out of the Spot Healing Brush? I'm using it in Photoshop CC to repair old photos. It tends to work about half the time the way I would want it to. Frequently, I have to back out "fixes" and either try again from a different direction or switch to the clone stamp tool.
So, how does one get the most out of the Spot Healing Brush?
Thanks,
Drew

The spot healing brush is a great to remove dust, spots, hairs and all sorts fo small artifacts form a background. You want to read the help to becoem familair with the options. Dpending on your image adn brush size either content aware or proximaity mathc you watn to switch between.
If you have a burlap texture, or a striped dress shirt, that can be hard for a tool like this, as each strand needs to match up.

Spot Healing Brush needs 'Current and Below' and 'Ignore Adjustment Layers'

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