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Inspiring
November 24, 2014
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P: Ability to disable double tap automatically aligning of Clone tool

  • 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When I first reported this problem I was told it was because my wacom tablet was old, my computer was out of date etc.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
Participating Frequently
November 12, 2019

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
Community Expert
November 12, 2019

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

Participating Frequently
March 3, 2019
LMAO 1995 , that was photoshop 3.
They may get around to it (hopefully) around 2095, not too long more.
Jpenni
Participating Frequently
March 3, 2019
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


Participating Frequently
August 20, 2017

My biggest problem with Photoshop is my love hate relationship with the Clone Stamp Tool.

I will be working with the aligned box unchecked and all of a sudden it is checked. This happens constantly!

How can I make it remain unchecked unless I want to check it?

Thanks,

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 20, 2017

Select the clone tool and reset from left end of Options bar

Participating Frequently
August 21, 2017

I almost daily reset all the tools.

Inspiring
December 10, 2014


Hello!

One thing that is bothering since forever is when working with the clone stamp tool and accidentally clicking twice when picking the source that is automatically activates the "same offset for each stroke" option. Unfortunately double-clicking again with the alt key doesn't reverse it so I have always have to go up in the option bar and deselect.

I see a certain use for that function but most of the time I rather not have it being active while stamping.

As far as I know there is no way to disable that behavior. Anyone else feeling the same about it?

Adobe... how about a tool tweak?