Clone Stamp Tool
Jul 13, 2019 16:31:35 #
bohleber
Loc: southern Indiana
I have been using this tool for a long time and all of a sudden (without making a selection) the circle is filled with a white/grey pattern. I can't get rid of it. Any ideas? PSE12 windows 10
Jul 13, 2019 17:32:12 #
Any chance you can do a screen print of what it looks like and post to this thread? Also, though your description suggests something else, make sure your keyboard caps lock isn't on. If it's set to upper case, instead of a circle, there will be a white/gray plus symbol.
And look at what brush you have selected. Normally you'd be in "basic" brushes.
Have you tried more than one photo? Have you tried shutting the software, rebooting computer, and then re-opening PSE?
And look at what brush you have selected. Normally you'd be in "basic" brushes.
Have you tried more than one photo? Have you tried shutting the software, rebooting computer, and then re-opening PSE?
Jul 13, 2019 17:32:16 #
Jul 13, 2019 18:00:34 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
rjaywallace wrote:
Please contact Adobe
Or one can try to search for a solution on their own.
Jul 13, 2019 18:02:48 #
In photoshop there is sometimes a drop-down in some of the tool options to use a pattern instead of sampling. Just guessing you might have inadvertently clicked something you shouldn't have. Another idea is you are in an empty layer but you don't have sample all layers clicked. I haven't used elements in a long time so these are just maybes.
Jul 13, 2019 18:10:30 #
In Elements 15 when you select the Stamp Tool from the toolbox it shows two stamps in the tool options at the bottom. The one on the left is the Clone Stamp, the one on the right is the Pattern Stamp.
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Jul 13, 2019 18:21:12 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
bohleber wrote:
I have been using this tool for a long time and all of a sudden (without making a selection) the circle is filled with a white/grey pattern. I can't get rid of it. Any ideas? PSE12 windows 10
I no longer use Adobe products and have not used Elements 12 since it was new. Since your problem sounds like you may be cloning a pattern I searched using Google for a around a minute or so using 'Adobe PhotoShop Elements 12 Clone stamp tool filled with gray pattern' as the search criteria, and came up with this link to the Pattern Stamp tool. Apparently, one of the ways of accessing the Pattern Stamp tool uses the Clone Stamp tool so I wonder if you may have inadvertently used the Clone Stamp tool to select a pattern stamp. It may be unrelated to your problem, but I thought it was worth considering.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/patterns.html
"Use the Pattern Stamp tool
The Pattern Stamp tool paints with a pattern defined from your image, another image, or a preset pattern.
From the Enhance section in the toolbox, select the the Pattern Stamp tool. (If you don’t see it in the toolbox, select the Clone Stamp tool, and then click the Pattern Stamp tool icon in the Tool Options bar.)
Choose a pattern from the Pattern pop-up panel in the Tool Options bar. To load additional pattern libraries, select a library name from the panel menu, or choose Load Patterns and navigate to the folder where the library is stored. You can also define your own pattern.
Set Pattern Stamp tool options in the Tool Options bar, as desired, and then drag within the image to paint.
You can specify any of the following Pattern Stamp tool options: "
Jul 13, 2019 18:22:32 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
Bill_de wrote:
In Elements 15 when you select the Stamp Tool from the toolbox it shows two stamps in the tool options at the bottom. The one on the left is the Clone Stamp, the one on the right is the Pattern Stamp.
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Lol. You beat me to it while I was busy typing my much longer post.
Jul 13, 2019 18:42:55 #
mwsilvers wrote:
Lol. You beat me to it while I was busy typing my much longer post.
I went through the same thing a while back and it can be real frustrating.
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Jul 13, 2019 21:49:58 #
rjaywallace wrote:
Please contact Adobe
Why? You'll find a more active Elements user base here, and you will not have to sit on hold for the rest of your life.
Jul 13, 2019 22:23:49 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Why? You'll find a more active Elements user base here, and you will not have to sit on hold for the rest of your life.
Calling the vendor seems to be on top of some people's list of recommendations when someone has a problem with a camera, lens, or software, I would hope that people would take a little more personal involvement in trying to figure out a problem rather than expecting others to always figure it out for them. But, I'm always ready to lend a hand.
A healthy percentage of the time I respond to people's problems with viable solutions, like in this thread, I've only been able to provide the information after searching the internet myself. It would be terrific if more people took a little more effort to research issues on their own. Not for my sake, but for theirs. Calling the vendor rather than trying to figure it out on your own is the easy way out and you learn nothing from it. In all the years I've been doing this, I think I resorted to calling a vendor perhaps two or three times for assistence.
Jul 14, 2019 06:09:38 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
mwsilvers wrote:
Or one can try to search for a solution on their own.
Jul 14, 2019 06:30:55 #
bohleber wrote:
I have been using this tool for a long time and all of a sudden (without making a selection) the circle is filled with a white/grey pattern. I can't get rid of it. Any ideas? PSE12 windows 10
My clone tool has changed recently, it now shows two circles the inner one is placed over the area you wish to clone, the outer one is where the "blur" occurs so you a smoothing effect.
Jul 14, 2019 07:07:49 #
I have had a similar problem with PSPro. Annoying huh! The best bet may be to remove the program and then reload the fresh.
Jul 14, 2019 07:48:31 #
I have had that happen in Photoshop when the wrong layer or part of the layer is selected, ie the mask vs the actual picture.
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