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P: Ability to disable double tap automatically aligning of Clone tool

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
November 24, 2014
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When I first reported this problem I was told it was because my wacom tablet was old, my computer was out of date etc. Now I have a brand new computer and a brand new wacom tablet and still if I am not careful my clone tool goes automatically alined when I select an area to be cloned the box ticks itself I can see it happen if I accidentally tap the pen twice in quick succession to the tablet when making a selection. Now this may be okay for you younger people with your steady as a rock hands but no matter how careful I am this is still happening by accident to me. Some may see it as a feature me I would just like to be able to turn it off.

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Jpenni

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Do you mean you can't deselect the "Aligned" option or do you mean it keeps reverting to "Aligned"?

It will keep reverting to "Aligned" if you double-click while holding down the Option key, something you would normally be holding down in order to sample a clone source. I haven't encountered not being able to click on the box and turn it off.

stevea68583521

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I deselect the Align box and it still doesn't turn off! WTF?!

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Jpenni

Participating Frequently

Thanks for your comment. This is an email from a year ago, 11/13/19.

I also went through this a year before. Still no results. It doesn't seem like a big ask, unless the code is buried so deep they don't think it's worth the effort.

Hello Jay,

Greetings from Adobe!

As you have already created a feature request. Depending on the user demand for the requested feature or adjustment to the tool in question, it might get implemented in the future updates.

For now, we are closing the escalation ticket on the case ID: - ADB-9876304-Q0X0

If you have any further queries please feel free to reach us back and refer to the case ID, we will be more than happy to work on this with you and your case will be followed up from there

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Even in Photoshop 22.0.1 this problem has not been fixed.

Adobe please fix this. I have to deselect the checkbox so many times a day.

This realy interferes my workflow.

Thanks.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

You just did. This is the feedback forum.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Jpenni

Participating Frequently

I have asked about this problem since 1995. If you inadvertently double-click while holding down the Option key the clone tool is set to "Aligned". I would like to turn this "feature" off or at least be able to configure another key combination. Seeing that you are constantly using the option key to select the source, using the option key also to select alignment is bad design. It also only goes only one way. You can't double-click holding Option to reset it so you need to stop and go to the option bar to reset. It would be as if automobile engineers said " Just press your brake once to stop. If to double-tap, you will accelerate. It is very aggravating when you are sampling thousands of times daily.
Is there somehow a way to make Adobe aware of this?
Thank you

Jpenni

Participating Frequently

If you inadvertently double-click while holding down the Option key the clone tool is set to "Aligned". I would like to turn this "feature" off or at least be able to configure another key combination. Seeing that you are constantly using the option key to select the source, using the option key also to select alignment is bad design. It also only goes only one way. You can't double-click holding Option to reset it so you need to stop and go to the option bar to reset. It would be as if automobile engineers said " Just press your brake once to stop. If to double-tap, you will accelerate. Does anyone know how to get through to Adobe for this. It is very aggravating when you are sampling thousands of times daily.

Reposting here instead of Photoshop family cusomer community

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

This has been discussed at length on this forum and others for many years and no one, not even adobe seems to know the reason that it was implemented back in photoshop 3. It's not anywhere in any adobe documentation that i have seen.

You can ask over here where a lot of adobe staff hangout and see what they say.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

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TangCanada

Participating Frequently

LMAO 1995 , that was photoshop 3.
They may get around to it (hopefully) around 2095, not too long more.

Jpenni

Participating Frequently

Inadvertently double-clicking while holding the option key(on a mac) switches the clone tool to sampling from an aligned source. This is problematic when retouching and sampling from a limited area. When retouching all day it is not unusual to be clicking rapidly hundreds or thousands of times a day. It's frustrating to be cruising along and suddenly things aren't coming out right and you have to go back in history. By the way, it only goes one way. Option-double-clicking does not uncheck the aligned box.

Please set up a way to disable this or configure it with an additional key command (shift-option-doubleclick) so that an action that is normally performed hundreds of times does not reset the tool. We all like to sleep from time to time, but falling asleep every time we blinked twice in succession would be a problem. Double-tapping the brakes and shifting your car into hyper-drive could be problematic. Better user interface please.

I first requested this from an Adobe rep at a Seybold show in 1995. Sorry to bug you again.

Thanks

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