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Clone Stamp & Patch Tool Issues

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November 22, 2025
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I updated to Photoshop 27.1 this morning. My clone stamp tool and patch tool were working fine before the update. After the update, while trying to use either tool, I get the result shown in the photos attached. I click the mouse one time and get what you see. Please help!

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Daniele5C18

Hello,
I use Microsoft Surface Pro 8, with Windows 11 (latest update).

The new version of Photoshop (27.1.0) is unusable on my machine.

The old 26.x versions are okay. However, in version 27.1.0, the clone tool is unusable.

I am sharing a video in which I show the same action (clone tool) on the same image, on the same machine, first with version 26 and then, five minutes later, with version 27.1.0.

The settings are the same, including the clone source settings (it does not depend on the clone source settings).

Thanks,

DM

BUG_psp_271.zip

Noel Orridge

Community Manager

Hi there! Thank you for reaching out! Sorry to hear about your issue. I couldn't reproduce this on my Windows machine. Moving this to discussions for now.

Please provide your system info so that we can take a deeper look. In Photoshop > Help > System info > Copy the contents into a text/Word file. You can share it via Google Drive, WeTransfer, or another public file-sharing platform.

In the meantime, here are a few things you can try to fix this:

1) While the Clone Stamp Tool is selected, go to the menu Window > Clone Source to open the panel. In this panel, uncheck "Show Overlay".

2) Go to Edit > Preferences > Performance. Click on Advanced Settings and uncheck the "GPU compositing" option.

3) If the above doesn't work, go to the Performance section mentioned in step (2) and uncheck "Use Graphics Processor". If this works, your GPU drivers might be faulty. Please install the latest GPU drivers.

4) Reset Photoshop's preferences: Please back them up first. Here's how you do it: Backup and restore preferences, and here's how you reset them (please use the Manual method): Reset preferences

Hope this helps!

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Noel

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Daniele5C18

@Noel Orridge

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately, suggestions 1, 2, and 3 did not help resolve the issue. I haven't tried resetting Photoshop preferences yet, but keep in mind that—with the same preferences—Photoshop 26.x works and Photoshop 27.1 does not.

In any case, I'll try tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, I'm sending you the system information file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1udUZmqimMc4PbrDu7m3NyRuJvLcG_-wF/view?usp=sharing

Let me know if you can solve it. In the meantime, I will be forced to downgrade to 26 tomorrow.

Thank you,

Daniele Muriano

MarekMularczyk

Community Expert

Does it happen on all images/all documents? Have you tried it on a new document?

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lindah58948373

Today, trying to select areas I want to repair or remove, my selection areas have gone haywire. See photos attached for what the selection areas are looking like. And then when I hit "okay", whatever is part of the selection area is removed, rather than just the little speck I was trying to remove in the first place. I have

Windows 11 and Photoshop version 27.1.0

Srishti_Bali

Legend

Hi @lindah58948373,

Thanks for reporting this. What you’re seeing is definitely unexpected. To help us investigate, could you please share a bit more information?

Does this happen with all images or only specific files?
If this issue occurs consistently, could you please record your full workflow in a short video and share it here?

Also, please try resetting Photoshop preferences manually (after taking a backup). You can follow the steps shared here: https://adobe.ly/4psCF9l. Let us know if that helps.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

I would try a reset of the Photoshop preferences by going to Edit>Preferences>General, click on Reset Preferences On Quit and then restart Photoshop.

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