Photoshop :: Why Doesn't Clone Or Healing Brush Work Sometimes
Nov 24, 2013
How come sometimes the Clone Stamp Tool doesn't clone, and the Healing Brush doesn't heal.
Sometimes I can get it to work, and sometimes I can't.
Sometimes it works only partially. The thing I want to cover over gets partially obscured behind a translucent clone spot.
On a recent attempt, I had the Healing Brush working, but after I made a selection mask to limit the area to be healed, the Healing Brush no longer worked.
I have Opacity and Flow on 100%. I tried a variety of different Modes. Aligned samples is checked, as Layer is set to Current. Layer is not locked. I am working on the top layer of three layers. I set layer to all three posible options, including Current, and Current and Below. I left Aligned Samples unchecked, and then I checked it.
I Reset the Tool in the configuration drop down menu next to the tool icon in the tool options bar. I Reset All Tools.
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Aug 14, 2013
I'm making a timelapse, and want to remove dust from certain scenes. I found a pretty neat tut from Angie Taylor [URL] which I tried MANY times following here instructions. After numerous failing attempts I would like to know why this don't work.
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Dec 18, 2007
Why is it that when i choose the clone or healing brush tools that the brush stays in a star like configuration. No matter how much i resize the picture of play with brush sizes it won't chane to the circle. then it suddenly pops into place. What should i be doing or not doing. it doesn't happen all the time but it is very frustrating when it does.
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Aug 19, 2013
having problems with photoshop 5.5... new issue for me, as there weren't any issues yesterday. both the 'healing brush tool' and the 'clone stamp tool' are giving problems. when i press the alt key to collect an area to sample, on my screen it looks as tho the hand tool engages, and there is a second (copy looking) image moving around my screen over the original. i've already tried the 'tool reset all' function and rebooted... still haveing the same issue.
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Sep 2, 2012
Is it possible to copy clone stamp tool and healing brush effects from one image to another?
I.e. I edit an image in Lightroom, then work on it in Photoshop CS often using clone and healing brush tool. However, if I then change the original in Lightroom, as I often seem to do, I have to re-do all my work in Photoshop. Is there a way I can copy my Photoshop work from the old to the new image?
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Aug 24, 2013
I just got my nice new Wacom Connect and have been having fun getting used to it.The issues I'm having is that I can't seem to use the clone stamp tool or the healing brush all that well with it.
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Aug 24, 2013
When using the Healing Brush tool in Normal mode, the opacity of the cloned pixels when painted onto the same layer as the source pixels will usually be decreased to blend better, BUT if the cloned pixels are painted onto a separate layer (to work non-destructively) the tool will NOT decrease opacity and the Healing Brush will work more like (if not exactly like) the Clone Stamp - true??
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May 27, 2012
I am having a big problem when using the new CS6 on my Mac (os x 10.7.4). When switching to a new tool, like a brush, or clone stamp, or healing brush etc, Photoshop hangs for about 20 seconds before resuming. It's not 3rd party plug-ins, because I get the same behaviour when I run using the shift key and third party plug-ins are disabled. It doesn't happen every time, but it happens frequently.
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Jul 5, 2009
Both of subject tools often 'go wild' on me when I am working on an image. Either tool will race across an image in a straight line and leave either a cloning or spotting mark [straight line]. I suspect this has something to do with insufficient memory. However I have 4 GB RAM and am not running any other big program while doing the cloning/spotting. Even if I 'give it some rest' this strange behavior will continue. Any help would be greatly appreciated! christian ps. Attached is a tiny sample, circled in red.
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Aug 26, 2009
As pointed out in the thread subject line, both the clone stamp tool and healing brush are not working for me in Photo Elements 7.When I am attempting to use it, I get the message: "Could not use clone stamp tool because the area to clone has not been defined". Well, this is not the case since I did define it with command Alt + left mouse click.
Background:Photo Elements 7 is installed in Windows XP Professional SP3. The latter runs as a virtual O/S with Sun VirtualBox on host SuSE Linux 11.1 (Gnome).
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Apr 28, 2012
With Healing Brush set to Opacity 100 (Size ...,78) and an image from a D800. LR 4.1 RC1/RC2 makes bad grey circles see following images:
Same with Clone Tool:
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Jan 11, 2012
i am wondering to add the Spot healing brush tool to lightroom so that i can clone some parts of the photo without moving to Photoshop.
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May 16, 2012
I ust PS CS5, Windows 7 64 bit, i7 processor, 16 gb of ram
My spot healing brush doesn't drage. The healing brush and all other brushes work normally. Before yesterday it was woking normally. The brush will make a round patch the size of the brush, but I can't paint with the brush.
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Aug 13, 2013
I have loaded the office copy of Photoshop elements on my computer. It is only being used on one computer. I have tried to log in with my password but when they send the email and I follow the link it can't log me in. I also find the Spot healing Brush tool doesn't work. I have a Windows 7 64 bit.
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Aug 8, 2009
I am getting photos ready to be used in a Premeire Pro video. I was given these photo by someone who scanned them. There is a fine green line running through some of them. I have tried removing it with the clone and the healing tools but they don't work on it (they DO work on the rest of the photo). I cannot figure out how to get rid of this line. There are no layers to flatten. Any help would be appreciated. I have never seen this before.
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Jan 30, 2014
adobe photoshop elements 9 , i cannot get the circle to appear using clone stamp tool and the spot healing brush . i`ve tried restating my computer and unloading and loading the adobe disc . but still no good .
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Nov 18, 2012
When I use the healing brush is tends to "skip". It leaves a line of circles like a stamp would instead of a flowing line like it should leave. No matter how slow I move the brush it leaves a circle and then as I continue to draw nothing happens until I reach the edge of the first circle, it then drops another circle and it continues that way as long as I draw with it. The brush tool works fine, leaves a smooth line. The Spot Healing and Patch Tool work fine but the healing brush will not heal in a smooth stroke. It skips along a leaves a tail of circles the size of the brush. I am using a fast computer, i7 processor, 16bg ram and a SSD drive so I do not think speed is an issue. I upgraded from CS4 where the healing brush worked fine on this computer
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Nov 11, 2012
The brush size on my paint brush and clone stamp are not working properly.
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Apr 29, 2009
I am trying to follow instructions on how to use the healing brush but there are a couple of things I'm having trouble with. I alt/click on an area that I've selected as the source and then I begin to paint the area to be healed. But, a little crosshair appears in a random area and it becomes the source spot. The spot that I originally selected is no longer the source. The crosshair 'shadows' my paint brush and if the crosshair crosses an area that has no relationship to the source I originally selected, it adds an irrelevant (and annoying!) thing to my heal area. My reading indicates that perhaps it was because I had the 'Aligned' button checked. (Is that right?) When I turn it off, the little cross stays and I have the same problem. (And one really annoying feature - if I unclick and then start healing another area, the crosshair shows up in a completly different area!) Does anyone know why the source spot I pick is superceded by the little crosshair? Also, when I paint the area to be healed, the healed area is a blend of the destination and the source area. Any idea why that is? Thanks!
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Apr 2, 2007
When editing with the heal tool in Photoshop CS1, I found that I could use a selection to limit what was sampled and modified by the heal tool, but not in CS2.
For example: In CS1, If i needed to 'heal' an area of a photo that contrasted with an adjacent area (that would influence the heal tool), I would make a selection of the area I wanted to heal, which would render all areas outside the selection unusable by the heal tool, so that only the area inside my selection could be sampled / modified by the heal tool. Here is this 'trick', explained in Photoshop Help:
"If there is a strong contrast at the edges of the area you want to heal, make a selection before you use the Healing Brush tool. The selection should be bigger than the area you want to heal but should precisely follow the boundary of contrasting pixels. When you paint with the Healing Brush tool, the selection prevents colors from bleeding in from the outside."
Working with CS2, I find that this little trick does not apply. Whether or not I'm working within or outside of a selection, or not working with one altogether, makes no difference to which pixels the CS2 heal tool uses - it uses all available pixels, and is not confined by a selection as it was in CS1. With CS2, I find it impossible to use the heal tool in areas of high contrast, where I could've (with the use of a selection) in CS1. Am I unique in this? Is this a glitch with my version of CS2, or a glitch with CS2 altogether?
How id it corrected, so that a selection can be made to limit the pixels available to the heal tool?
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Jun 6, 2006
I brought digital magazine to learn more. All was going really well until I got to the restoration lesson. In this lesson it shows how to use the healing brush to fix damage. In the lesson it tells me to open a new layer then select the healing brush, in the options for the brush I should select align and use all layers. The only problem is there is no "use all layers" box to tick. Apparently it's easer to see what I have done and to correct any mistakes this way.
I have noticed that the lesson is for Photoshop cs. does this make that much difference?
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Nov 4, 2013
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?
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Jan 16, 2009
Have CS4 on Windows XP. Wacom tablet and pen. Nvidia GEForce 7600GS video card.
Have updated Tablet drivers and Video card driver as of this am. (Fri Jan 16 09). Adobe updates seem to be having a bit of trouble coming through though. Virus program is AVG.
Healing brush only, when we alt click to set the selection point and then move to the area we want changed and drag the curser, the selection point glides along smoothly while the target hops along giving a series of altered spots with non-altered spots in between.
Clone brush and so on are fine.
Any ideas, past experiences? Or have I ventured into new territory?
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Nov 30, 2008
I like CS4 and have very few problems with it. But one curious behaviour is that from time to time clicking to create a healing area using the Healing Brush creates a diagonal streak from upper left to lower right as if someone had held down the healing brush (at the beginning of the streak) and pulled the brush diagonally to create the diagonal streak. This happens when the healing area clicked is nowhere near the start of the diagonal streak. Undoing and re-healing a few times usually gets it done ok but it is odd.
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Dec 27, 2008
I know I have used this tool before, but when I recently opened Photoshop CS4, it wasn't there. How do I get it back?
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Sep 1, 2005
I know that there must be a button staring me in the face but I can't find it.
My healing brush is pressure sensitive for size, but I don't want it to be. I've turned all the options off in the brush palette but it makes no difference. I cannot see any option on the option bar for this either. PS8
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Jan 26, 2008
I tried defining a new brush but the sample doesn't recognize color and texture. Is there a way of sampling a small piece of a drawing and making a brush out of it? With the multi colors of the sample?
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Oct 19, 2013
i have photoshop cs6 , and i was watching a video about the new lightroom features it was amazing how in this video lightroom v5 brush tool work does cs6 have such feature ? or is included in cc only?
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Apr 20, 2012
Over the past few weeks each time I use the healing brush, (contect aware), it sporadically starts clicking around the screen on its own and is causing me a nightmare. Everything else is fine and I have no mouse issues....
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May 27, 2012
My Spot Healing Brush Tool wont drag at all, yes I have tried resetting the Tool. I am wondering if its because my Graphics card is integrated(Laptop)?
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Nov 13, 2013
I am working with PSCS6 CC. When using the healing brush in content aware or proximity mode the tool generates artifacts.
What is causing this behavior and how can it be prevented?
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