Trouble with Healing Brush

When I put the healing brush on "content aware" and use it, it immediately closes the program and pops up an error message. Does anyone know why it's doing this?

Yes. Installing the updates should resolve the issue.
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I am running Photoshop CS5 on a Mac and I am having some trouble with the healing brush tool.
The behaviour seems to be the same whether I have 'Align' ticked or not.
I first select the area I want to sample from using alt-click. I then use the healing brush to paint over the area I want to repair. The cross-hair showing where the pixels are being sampled from moves as I move the brush around. I assumed this would only happen when 'aligned' is ticked but it happens all the time, meaning it paints unwanted pixels.
What I want to do is keep sampling from the orginal point, not for it to move as I move the brush.
Is this expected behaviour or am i doing something wrong?
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It really would be good to be able to see a sample of what you're getting to make sure we're on the same page. Do you have another browser you could use?
How hard is the brush you're using to paint with the Healing Brush? I find that a hard edged brush often works best.
The Healing Brush tool derives the color it uses for mixing from its surroundings, and it can often look further than just the adjoining pixels. If you use it very close to a place where the color changes a lot you'll see something like what you're describing. I just avoid using it near contrasty places and if I see this I just use other means - e.g., the clone tool.
Note the difference in results below, when the Healing Brush tool is used on these two spots with the same brush:
-Noel

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Again, today, I have the spinning beach ball after using the healing brush on a 489 MB image.
I have to restart the MacPro (OS 10.5.6) and - of course -I will lose the last 15 minutes of work. I can't afford to save every 60 seconds, and this is a repeated crash event for me.
How do I get a Photoshop crash report to see what is wrong?
I can look at the Mac's console report after I restart - is that the only way?
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Richard,
Still not sure what you did. Did you buy the complete CS 4 Suite, but just wish to install Photoshop and Dreamweaver from that Suite?
If so, maybe the solution is to completely uninstall all previous versions of Adobe software, run system maintenance, and do a fresh install Photoshop CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4 alone. No need to install CS2 or CS3 again -- just use their serial numbers when prompted.
>I seem to recall reading that Adobe designed it so that you can only upgrade from a suite to the next ENTIRE suite package - and not upgrade individual programs. That's just what I tried to do - CS3 creative suite to Photoshop CS4 - and the result is a big mess.
But, if you just bought the two individual apps, and not the Suite, you did not upgrade Suite to Suite. A single application is not an upgrade path from a previous Creative Suite -- only a Suite to Suite upgrade is, although you don't have to install all CS4 components. If this is what you did, then you need to call Adobe and see if they'll work something out. A friend of mine was able to install a Photoshop CS4 upgrade (he has the complete CS3 Suite) -- but only after an exasperating three hours on the phone with Adobe somewhere in downtown India.
>Can we just bundle Photoshop and Dreamweaver - for the countless photographers who have websites
But Dreamweaver is probably far more overkill here than Photoshop is.
Neil

Issue with Healing Brush and Wacom Tablet

I use a Wacom Intuos 4 for retouching. Photoshop CC 2014 gets stuck when I use the healing brush. I hold the Alt-key down and take a sample with the healing brush, and when I go to paint and the cross-hair gets stuck inside of the circle and the tool stops responding. After I remove the pen from the tablet I get the round spinning little balls as Photoshop is thinking and then everything works again. It's very annoying when retouching skin. It doesn't do it every time I use the tool just at random. Anyone else having this issue? I've tried many different driver versions for the Wacom and it does it no matter what version. I've also reset the tool. I've done everything but reformat the hard drive. I'm using windows 7 64bit.

I got a response from Wacom Support about this issue.
Actually this is a known issue with Photoshop CC 2014. This is a third party application. You have the current driver for windows 7 and the tablet works fine. Wacom ensures that your tablet works perfectly for any issues except third party application support. I would recommend that you tried contacting Adobe regarding this.
Customer Support Team
WACOM
Great. All I got from contacting both Adobe and Wacom support was finger pointing and acknowledgement of a problem. At this point any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

TS1702 Anyone having trouble with My Brushes vendor? Can't contact the support email they give us?

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Describe exactly the steps you performed to move the Pattern Brush from one file to another when you received the error. Or, provide step-by-step to reproduce the error. Or, post the problem file somewhere that others can look at it.
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Trouble with the brush tool and shortcut keys on a Mac

If I select the brush tool and use it on an image, then go to use shortcut keys like to make the brush bigger, or smaller, to zoom in/out, or change the colour for the mask etc, it won't work. I need to select another tool then go back to the brush tool to make the shortcuts work again. After working for a bit again the shortcuts won't work. Has anyone got any idea on how to fix this?
I am on a Mac.

Please read this (in particular the section titled "Supply pertinent information for quicker answers"):
http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2325
What have you done for general trouble-shooting so far? (restoring Preferences after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved might be of special interest)
http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2012/07/photoshop-basic-troubleshooting-steps-to-fix-mos t-issues.html

PS 9 crashes when using Healing brush. Clone tool and all other tools seem to work ok.

Just installed v9 today. Have been using v7 for a long time and there is a little difference in using these tools, but as soon as I start to paint with healing brush (with the content aware button on)(or any other variation for that matter), the program crashes. This seems to be the only problem although the Topaz filters seem to be pretty slow as compared to using them in version 7. I have 2gb of ram and a 2.4 mhz Intel processor with a GEforce 5200 128mb graphic card. I think that all of the other sys requirements are met or exceeded as well. Anyone got any ideas?????????

This is a known problem with photoshop elements 9 and
adobe says there working on a fix.
For more info:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/876/cpsid_87659.html
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Cs5 Healing Brush not working @ 32bit channel on openExr format

Hi..
Cs5 Healing Brush not supporting 32bit workflow.. if i want to work on hdr 32bit EXR, the Healing brush not supporting at all. if i want to work i ve to convert them into 16bit.. why its like.. that..? if i convert 32->16->32 is it possible any color loss.?. can any one explain technically ...
in cs5 if i try to change 16bit its asking hdri tone maping.. how could skip this process. i just want to convert 16bit and few touch-ups with healing brush. and i want to revert to 32bit. this convertion process causes any color info..
i want to keep my data in to 32float itself. and i want to use healing brush..
Thanks
panner

can any one explain technically ...
Because the author of the healing brush code hasn't updated it (or related tools) to work in 32 bit/channel yet.
(and the person who wrote most of the 32 bit support code couldn't untangle that code to get it working himself)

PE9 trouble with clone/healing brush on a new install.

Hi,
I have PE9 installed on my desktop and the program works perfectly and it also was fine on my previous laptop. Due to an accident I had to get a new laptop and that is where the issues have started.
The Clone and Healing Brush cannot be resized using the [ ] keys. I can work around using the size button on top of the image viewing area but it is much slower doing that.
Using the Quick Selection Tool I am not able to remove it when finished by pressing the Esc key. I have not found a work around for that. Ctrl-Z will eventually remove it but it also removes any changes made first!!
There could be other tools that have issues but I haven't found them to this point. Other tools are working normally. I was wondering if it was some sort of keyboard switch not working but I was unable to find anything in the laptop manual. All keys do work properly. It is a Dell Inspiron as was the previous unit.
I have unistalled the original install of PE9 and reinstalled it. Same problems. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Cyril

Hi Barbara,
Thanks for taking the time to help me. I tried your suggestion but no luck. However I found something by "stumbling" around. I changed the keyboard setting to US from Canadian Multilingual Standard (which was the way it came to me) and that fixed the issue with the keyboard shortcut of brackets [ ] to resize the: Healing Brush, the Clone Tool, the Dodge and Burn tools. They work fine as long as US is selected for the keyboard language.
As for the use if the Esc key, after working with Adobe we found that the Esc key on my BRAND NEW laptop was not working!! I guess that explains why the Esc key shortcut wouldn't work in PE9. Oh my, you gotta love our new technology!!!!!! That then led me to a couple of hours on the phone with Dell about replacing the system. The joy just continues to flow. :-))))))))))))
Anyway, Adobe had not heard of the "Canadian Multilingual.. keyboard selection" being a problem for PE9 and those keyboard shortcuts, so if anyone else has this issue, try that! It worked for me. I am definitely tired of the phone after today. Hoping for a smoother day tomorrow. All the best.

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When trying to use the clone stamp and/or healing brush as soon as I move the cursor from the toolbar over to the image I get an exact copy of the existing layer that moves around the window with the movement of the clone stamp/healing brush. This just started tonight. What's causing this weird behaviour?

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I want to do the following:
1. get rid of wrinkles, blemishes and dark circles under the eyes
What is the difference between using the content aware option and the proximity match option with the spot healing brush? Aren't they both blending surrounding pixels to get rid of the blemishes, wrinkles and dark circles?
Thanks.

Proximity Match is how the Healing Brush works, it takes the surrounding pixels and blends them together with the underlying stuff. Content Aware on the other hand tries to recreate the texture based on the surrounding pixels so it doesn't blend with the pixels that you just painted over. Try both, see which one produces better results for you.

Problem with Advanced Healing Brush on LR 5

I am experiencing a problem with the Advanced Healing Brush on LR 5. Using, say, the Heal option, when I have marked the area I want to heal, and then move to the source I want to copy, I cannot get the colour of my selected source point to remove the heal spot.
I have looked at a number of tutorials and working comments on using this function, and I am pretty sure that I am following the correct procedure for using the Advanced Healing Brush. I have the same problem when I try to use the Cloning option - the colour just does not fill the area I want to fix.
Is there possibly a bug hanging around? Can anyone give me any possible solutions to my problem? I so want to try out this terrific new feature in LR 5.

Thanks for your response
I attach 2 screenshots
Screenshot1 - See the orange tip of a feather behind the kid's head - I want to remove this with the heal option in the Spot Removal tool
Screenshot2 - I have demarcated a piece of the feather with the spot tool and have chosen the source color of the wooden bench
I was expecting the demarcated area to have adopted the chosen source color, but it hasn't, by a long shot. I've tried evry which way to get it to work, but no luck.
I even tried using the Clone option, choosing the same source color and painting over the orange feather, but that also didn't work.
I look forward to your comments
Sorry - forgot to add the images
Message was edited by: mandav1023

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