Spot Healing Brush NOT working...

Has anybody run into this? The spot healing brush is NOT working. I am starting over on a picture I already edited, using this tool a lot (to remove weird reflections, facial flaws, etc. I "reset all tools" to see if that would help and it isn't. I try to use "alt" on the face to set the base, but when I try to actually use the tool, nothing is happening.

I have used PSE 2.0 in the past and have just installed PS Elements 5.0. I have located the Spot Healing Brush which I have read is to be used for small spot fixes. I have found literature alluding to the 'Healing Brush', a different tool used for fixing larger areas of imperfection. Try as I might I cannot locate this tool on PSE 5.0 Is it not there? Can anyone help? Thanks

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  • PS CS6 spot healing brush stopped working.  followed online instructions but it did not work

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  • Cs5 Healing Brush not working @ 32bit channel on openExr format

    Hi..
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    can any one  explain technically ...
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    3. Reset the elements 7 preferences by holding down the Shift+Alt+Ctrl keys
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    MTSTUNER

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    Hello,
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    In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with your choice of Spot Healing Brush for this image. I cropped your screenshot to the "BEFORE" image, removed the "BEFORE" type (with the SHB) and scaled to 600% to match your original document.
    A dab of a 0% hardness 500 pixel Spot Healing Brush in Ps CS5.1 on OS X 10.6.8 worked perfectly. However, I would have made a vertical stroke with the brush at about 80% hardness and about 200 pixels, which also works for me.
    Maybe your SHB is working in "Create Texture" mode despite specifying "Proximity Match" in Options bar. Try resetting the SHB by right-clicking its icon at left of Options bar and picking "Reset Tool" from the menu that appears.

  • Spot Healing Brush Content-Aware SLOW! on large files

    I updated from Photoshop CC to CC 2014. When working with ultra large format scans (more than 3 Gigapixel) the Spot Healing Brush set on Content-Aware takes unusually long (5-7 seconds for retouching small dust spots). In Photoshop CC the same Content-Aware Spot Healing Brush actions were executed instantly without any perceived delays once I've pointed a source for the Clone Stamp tool (which I found weird but doing so really made the Spot Healing Brush faster on large files). On smaller images it's still very fast on CC 2014 but not on the 3.5 GPixel images I'm working on at the moment.
    I know there have been some changes/improvements for the Content-Aware tools but in this case it's seriously hitting the performance. I haven't noticed any other slow-downs in processing performance with the update.
    I'm working on a dual-CPU (2 x 2.4 GHz 6-core) and 128 GB RAM Windows 8.1 machine. I've allowed Photoshop to use up to 120 GB RAM.
    Is there any way to reset the Content-Aware Spot Healing Brush to work as fast as it had before the CC 2014 update?

    My performance settings are the same for CC and CC 2014.
    I assume the problem is introduced by the changes/improvements of the Content-Aware tools and on normal file sizes it might not matter for the user if the operation takes 25 or 200 ms. But on large files it seriously slows down the retouching work.
    So far I've been doing as you suggested, using CC for that type of work. But as it takes about 90 minutes to save these huge files and AFAIK Photoshop CC and CC 2014 cannot be run as separate instances simultaneously it's quite inconvenient not being able to use CC 2014 for some other type of work while CC is saving the file.
    If the new Content-Aware functions take that much more processing it would be great to have a choice (similar to the choice of the RAW-engine used in ACR). However, if the new Content-Aware functions are just not yet optimized for fast performance then it's a bug.
    I will file a Feature Request/Bug Report and ask if there is anything that can be done about it in Photoshop CC 2014.
    Thanks for your help, Eugene.

  • Where is the spot healing brush?

    Hello Everyone,
    I've been a Lightroom user for a couple of years now but very new to photoshop.  Still figuring out all the cool stuff this program has to offer.  I want to use the spot healing brush to touch up a few images but I'm not able to locate it in Photoshop CS5.  I've looked in what I thought were the most logical places, looked thorugh the documentation and did some searching online but I haven't yet found the icon/function I'm looking for.   I do see the healing brush and I have been able to use the content-aware fill function successfully
    The format of the working image (raw, jpeg) seems to make no difference.  I read online that the spot healing brush only works with jpeg images.  Is this true?  I was able to use content aware fill on a raw image.
    Here's a screenshot showing all the tools and the various tool presets.  I'm running CS5 version 12.0.4 x64 on Windows 7.  Would appreciate it if someone can let me know what I'm missing here?
    Thanks,
    Dini

    The spot healing brush is located in the same tool slot as the healing brush, just
    click and hold on the healing brush icon in the tool box to see the hidden tools.
    As far as i know the spot healing brush works on most other images besides jpegs, so
    no it's not true that the spot healing brush only works on jpegs.
    tool locations in the cs5 toolbox:
    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/788633?tstart=0
    There's all kinds of good information in the cs5 help:
    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/index.html
    MTSTUNER

  • 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.

  • Help with spot healing brush in LR

    I cannot get the spot healing brush to work in the newest version of LR. I used to use it successfully since LR 2. I have to go into PS now to clean up dust spots.  Can someone please tell me what I need to do to get my spots cleaned in LR?
    Thanks!

    Hi Keith
    I click on the spot healing brush tool, click on either heal or clone, then go to the spot, circle it, and click. The spot will not go away.
    I've tried holding down the alt/option key and clicking on the spots, but still nothing.  I can drag on the spots, click, nothing....
    If I go into Photoshop I can use the spot healing brush there, but not sure why I can't get it to work in LR anymore. It used to always work for me.
    Thank you for any input.
    Chris

  • Spot healing brush tool luminosity not working as expected?

    I have a question about the content aware spot healing brush tool:
    The normal and replace mode work just fine as expected... the color mode does indeed a fine job fixing the color cast of i.e. small green or purple lens flares, by picking up the surrounding color.
    The next mode after color, called luminosity, should work in the same fashion: it should pick up the surrounding brightness (luminosity), and adjust the relative brightness of the area to be patched (i.e. reduce the brightness of a small lens flare, and preserve the texture underneath).
    Instead, luminosity doesn't work much different than the normal mode, it creates a new texture (based on content aware or surrounding area), and thereby destroying the original texture, instead of just fixing the local brightness.
    My question for Adobe: is this behavior intentional? or was the luminosity mode "overlooked" by accident?

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