Was the Smudge Tool Changed?

In Photoshop CS5 and under, the smudge tool at 100% Strength would drag pixels without smudging/blurring/mixing, creating this cool painting effect. Customizing the smudge tool with a bit of a textured brush shape and some scattering, with 100% smudging Strength would create this amazing painterly effect, but now in Photoshop CS6 the 100% strength does not work. In fact, it works much worse than 99%.
As you can see, at 99% strength, the smudge does less blurring, and more dragging, which is almost as close as Photoshop CS5's 100% smudging strength( it hardly ever blurred or mixed, 100% would only drag in CS5)
100% on CS6 does considerably worse dragging, and alot of blurring, and seems to only be a step above 90%, which blurs and mixes more.
I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if this was an intentional edit to the smudging tool. The smudging tool in the past was completely fine, and now I can't use my smudging tool presets because they do not create the same effects they did when I created them back in CS5.

Hi there,
I have the same issue going on since Photoshop CS6, I am still on Photoshop CS5 at work, because of that exact issue. I don't know why this problem has been ignored by Adobe and carried on even to the latest CC 2014 subscription.
Apparently not many people use the smudge tool at 100% pressure. As a concept artist I practically use this feature almost on a daily base and I find it extremely useful - feel free to visit my portfolio: http://www.inetgrafx.com to see the smudge tool in action :-)
It would be very much appreciated if a developer could fix this tool as shown below:
in short: it works perfectly fine in CS5 and I wished I had exactly the same functionality back again for a future version of Photoshop,
For right now my work around is the use of a hard round brush and all settings disabled - maybe that would help someone who experiences the same.
Thanks a lot and best regards,
-dan
Daniel Kvasznicza
www.inetgrafx.com

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It's behavior has been changed since CS6! see: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1021785
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At 99% and below, it seems ok. However, I will have to test side by side with CS5.
In the attached img, 100% does't do much. The marks you can see were applied with heavy pressure. The fine lines at 99% were with very little pressure, and you can see how I use it for hair, etc.
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Again, the same four layer setup: Background-Background copy-HSB Adj layer-Levels Adj layer.
The problem replicates with the Adj layers clipped or not.
The key is any tweak in the Adj layers will cause the issue.
Any Adj layer tweak seems to get exaggerated when smudging on a layer.
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