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June 18, 2015

P: Healing Brush Problems - White Outline

  • June 18, 2015
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Upgraded to Photoshop CC 2015 to discover the healing brush no longer functions correctly.

To demonstrate this issue simply create a new document, fill it with black, create a blank layer above it, select the healing brush (not the spot healing brush) and set sample to 'current & below' no healing on the blank layer, you will see white outlines where you have healed.

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Inspiring
July 1, 2015
Exactly. At least you should know that, if you do retouching, you'll see no difference between CC2014 and CC2015. If you're some other type of professional, then I don't know.

My biggest issue with photoshop and yosemite is the fact that the mouse cursor disappears behind the "save liquify mesh" dialog. I've been writing about it for over 6 moths now and no response from adobe...
Known Participant
July 1, 2015
I wonder how many users haven't noticed the issue and have supplied their clients with slug trail covered images.

Any update on this Adobe? It has been two weeks now.
Known Participant
July 1, 2015
Correct, the white pixels are are being drawn and are still visible on saved images.
peterw7637322
Participant
July 1, 2015
Thanks for that, Omar. It doesn't fix the problem, but at least it resolves my confusion!
Inspiring
July 1, 2015
That isn't true. It's not that I feel they're visible on different programs and versions, i KNOW the halo is visible in different versions because I downgraded back to CC2014 in the middle of a job and the halos that appeared during the time I was working in CC2015, where still there in CC2014. No new halos appeared in CC2014, of course.

The halos aren't just a rendering glitch. Photoshop is actually drawing white pixels around the brush strokes of the healing brush. The longer the healing brush stroke, the whiter the pixels it sprays. If it was just a rendering problem, this wouldn't be such a big issue, but it is.

Save the image, open it in whatever you have, and you'll still see the halos.
July 1, 2015
I'm sure they understand how it is visible, also I don't think it is visible on a saved/exported image—only while working on it in Photoshop. Adobe is just taking their sweet time in fixing it, which is fairly typical of them.
Inspiring
July 1, 2015
That's not really important. It's just the way photoshop interpolates at different zoom levels. Interpolation (bicubic) might choose to show at low zoom levels what in reality is just a single white pixel.

You'll see that, when you use the healing brush in CC2015 and get the halos, if you then open the image in CC2014, the halos are still there and the zoom thing you mention is also present.

So yeah, that's not related to the healing halo problem. It's just how zoom works.
peterw7637322
Participant
July 1, 2015
Just to make things more confusing, I've noticed that sometimes the artifacts are visible when I'm zoomed out, but they disappear when I zoom in to take a closer look!
peterw7637322
Participant
June 30, 2015
Same problem for me. Running Windows 7. Having to revert to using the tools I used back in the 90s (clone stamp). This is infuriating, especially as I remember it happening before a few years ago (2012?).

Much more work for me. Less money. Less sleep. Please fix soon!
Jose_Salvador
Participant
June 30, 2015
Same problem here. Photoshop CC 2014 worked fine. Photoshop CC 2015 healing brush is useless now. Thousand thumbs down. It is an unexpendable tool for me and this update simply sucks! Please fix or revert