P: Healing and Spot Healing Brush Lag

Did you turn smoothing down to 0%? I didn't turn "off" smoothing, I just dragged the slider to zero in the tool bar and everything is working properly now

I'm having the same issue also. Tried everything, several PS performance settings, maintenance routines on my Mac, deleting caches....all of it after a few minutes working, the healing brush starts lagging again. Will this be fixed with a patch or should I go back to previous version.

Same problem and none of the fixes suggested help. Have smoothing at zero, etc. I either need to reinstall 2017 (not an option on the CC menu) or Adobe needs to fix this ASAP. I have a major, zero delays tolerated project series in one week. Right now, the delays are so bad that effecively, the tools don't exist for me.


There is a work around for those who are desperate (like me). Use split frequency with the clone stamp on the high layer (I am not having issues with the clone stamp). But it is very annoying to have to use this and bloat the file for images that would be fixed just as well with a few healing brush clicks.

I have this annoying healing brush lag too. Hope Adobe will fix it soon, it is real trouble now especially when editing large files with smart objects.

turning off smothing doesn't work for ever......after cca 1hour of work is there a lag again 😞 

even when I turn brush smoothing off, and restart PS or whole system, lag is present after cca 1hour of work again 😕😕 

In addition to the lag, I'm getting the line between points as well. Anyone else seeing this? I've seen another thread on this but it should be mentioned here as well. So far, trashing my preferences seems to have fixed the lag, but what a hassle...

I don't see it when the healing brush is active either...? 

TRashed preferences and it's gone for now. But so are all of my preferences. Bummer of a solution. 

Same thing here. Mine happens immediately. I get the lag and the lines. I tried resetting to "use the legacy algorithm" for healing brush, but that almost made it worse. Beta testing during my workday is a hassle.