Well, it’s not really a shadow. It appears to be a sample of where I OPTION-CLICK. All good and fine and I guess it must be thought of as an improvement, but for me it makes the clone tool unworkable because the ‘shadow’ shadows my clone cursor everywhere, blocking out what’s underneath so I can’t see what I want to select and where I want to clone to.
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Tool settings are always saved after restart, and this one is no exception.
Yes its a useful feature for certain types of work, but it probably shouldn’t be the default. There should also be a check box in the Options Bar for this, and maybe a keyboard shortcut toggle also. On high res files it slows things down quite a lot.
I actually didn’t know about the Option Shift shortcut! thanks Zeno. That’s nearly there, but it would still be useful to be able to toggle Show Overlay on or off with a shortcut permanently.