With aligned UNchecked the tool will keep sampling from that one starting point. It will, however, move the sampling point in sympathy with the cursor movement whilst you hold down the mouse button. Try cloning with a short dabbing motion instead.
Yesterday, I was able to work with all the Photoshop CS2 retouch capibilities. Today none of the Clone, Dodge/Burn, Paint options (ones that use a ‘brush’ type of tool) work. For Instance, the History indicates that cloning took place but the image is unaffected. Aligned and Sample All Layers boxes are checked. There doesn’t appear to be any option to Restore Defaults in Photoshop. An ‘add programs’ Repair, and a uninstall/re-install of the software software have no affect. It’s almost as though Adobe disabled half of the CS2 options. I registered my Photoshop CS2 software more than 6 months ago, and transfered (via a live phone conversation) my registration to a new PC about 10 days ago.
A search of the internet about Clone problems turns up only a handful of articles and most provide very little useful information or options to try. Photoshop’s HELP tab is even more useless. What’s additionally agravating is that Adobe wants money to even contact them by email to tell them there is a major problem.
Are you suffering from the by now famous "Wacom tablet users suffer from lack of tool functionality when pen is left too near tablet" syndrome?
I use Photoshop 7.0. The problem occurs when I open a picture and use the clone stamp tool. I have to use a ‘huge’ brush to see any action take place. If I use a ‘normal’ brush size I cannot see any action. I know there is an adjustment for this. Help!?
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I use Photoshop 7.0. The problem occurs when I open a picture and use the clone stamp tool. I have to use a ‘huge’ brush to see any action take place. If I use a ‘normal’ brush size I cannot see any action. I know there is an adjustment for this. Help!?
Have you checked that all "Brush Dynamics" are off for the clone brush?
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Ola
What’s your image resolution?
TMH
The panic level has gone from Red to Green. It would seem that John may have hit it on the nose.
After coming home from work, I read the postings. I did have a Watcom 4X5 retouch tablet plugged in. I unplugged it, opened up Photoshop, opened up an image, clicked the clone tool, and actually saw the cloning action take place. So in essence, it would seem that the Watcom tablet does interfer with Photoshop functions.
For those who read this, it may be helpful to understand the whole series of events.
Thirteen days ago, I bought all the parts to put together a 3.0 GHZ P4 system. I loaded the new XP operationg system, and immediately started loading all the other sofware as well. It was the next day when I loaded Photoshop CS2 onto the new system but had to have live teck support from Adobe to transfer the license from the old PC to the new one. I had loaned my Watcom tablet to my son so he could use it as a mouse (the tablet comes with both pen and mouse) with his laptop.
I don’t think the Watcom tablet was plugged in when I used Photoshop last, showing my son some of the things you can do in Photoshop. A couple of days later, after he left, I plugged my Watcom tablet back in, put the retouch pen in the holder and the Watcom mouse on top of the pad (I normally use a PS2 mouse for retouch work). I think that yesterday, when I was having the problems with Photoshop, was the first time since I had plugged in the pad, AND for the first time, the the Watcom mouse was laying in the center of the pad.
Two possibilities come to mind:
1. The Watcom pad itself does not play well with Photoshop or
2. There was mouse confusion between the Watcom mouse laying on the pad and the PS2 mouse plugged in.
I will experiment with some variations to see if I can replicate and pinpoint the actual cause. When I get more detailed information, I will email Watcom with my findings. Too bad Adobe has such limited tech support, making it almost impossible to email them as well with my findings. Also it seems that the only way to get a solution to an Adobe problem, without paying an arm & leg for official Adobe tech support, is to tap into a forum like this. I really appreciate the suggestions through this forum. The one that worked probably saved me from putting a lot of change into the ‘swear jar’.
It’s well established that the Wacom tablet, with the Wacom mouse or stylus on or near it, will cause the normal mouse to become unusable in brush-type modes (e.g., brush, eraser, clone, and some others). The mouse cursor will move, but the Wacom senses its stylus is near and takes control of mouse clicks; hearing none from the unused stylus, it makes sure Photoshop doesn’t get any.
However you don’t have to unplug the Wacom: just keep the stylus well away from it if you want to use the mouse with brush-type tools. Or try using the stylus it’s much better!
I have a problem in photoshop elements 2 with clone stamp tool. when I try to alt click a popup comes up with The area could not be defiend. I read that if you have programs that use alt- as a short cut. I dont have any that uses alt-short cuts.
It is only when I send a Email I use crtl + at. What can I do to solve this problem
ole
Ole,
Check any program shortcut icons you may have on your desktop. Right click on them and select "Properties". At the properties dialogue box, select Shortcut and see if any keyboard shortcuts (shortcut key) have been assigned to the program.
HTH
TMH
