My clone stamp is not cloning

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September 12, 2010
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I am running CS5 on a Mac. I select my clone source, and CS5 shows it in the brush circle as I move it to the destination. Then I click on my track pad (or on my Wacom tablet, the result is the same), and nothing happens - the sample in the brush circle is not copied to the destination.

I've gone into the Clone Source tab and unchecked everything, but it makes no difference; I've even tried unplugging the Wacom in case it was interfering somehow, but this has no effect. Opacity is set to 100%. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

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thegonzgonz

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lizer58318740

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stage-hand

Participant

Hi Paul,

A simple question mate! Did you hold down the option key while holding and clicking the clone circle over the area you wanted to clone?

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paulcohnAuthor

Inspiring

Yes, I'm holding down the option key, and getting the crosshairs. To answer the question above yours, I'm working on a copy of the background layer with the sample set to current layer.

Here's an even funnier bit: when I shut down both CS5 and Lightroom 3 (I opened the file from LR), the clone brush begins to work again for a while - and then it stops working! There is no rhyme nor reason to this.

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paulcohnAuthor

Inspiring

The only practical reason that in might not be working, is if you are trying to Clone onto an area which is unselected…you have an active selection which is hidden. If this is not the case then sounds like a reset of Photoshop Preferences is in order.

I'll try that. But that raises another question: for a lot of the problems in these forums, the answer is to reset Preferences. What is the role of the Preferences setting, and does it get corrupted or interfere with normal operation?