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photoartist
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June 14, 2019
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Spot Healing Tool Failure in Photoshop CC

  • June 14, 2019
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I use the Spot Healing Brush Tool all the time.

Suddenly, it's not working. I used it yesterday and it was fine.

I can't change the brush size using either the shortcuts { & } or the Brushes menu. In fact, the brush size is grayed out.

Everything else seems to be working.

I'm using Photoshop CC - 19.18   and a Mac Pro - OSX El Capitan - Ver. 10.11.6   I can't upgrade to the newest OS as my older Mac Pro won't support it.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer Michael Bullo

Have you tried resetting the Photoshop preferences?

Preferences in Photoshop

"Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift (Windows) or Option+Command+Shift (Mac OS) as you start Photoshop. You are prompted to delete the current settings. The new preferences files are created the next time you start Photoshop."

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photoartist
Participant
June 14, 2019

Thank you. Resetting Preferences did the trick.  Yep, I did mean the square brackets.

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 14, 2019

Hi

A couple of comments.

Brush size greyed out in the brushes menu is normal for the spot healing brush

You should be able to adjust the brush size with the square brackets [  ]  . The curly brackets you mentioned { }  are normally used to adjust brush hardness.

You should also be able to adjust brush size from the options bar drop down:

Dave

photoartist
Participant
June 14, 2019

Thanks for the Option Bar info. I didn't know that.

josephlavine
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 14, 2019

As Michael mention, generally resetting the preferences solves the problem, but if not, then I'd reinstall the application.

Preferences in Photoshop

Michael Bullo
Community Expert
Michael BulloCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
June 14, 2019

Have you tried resetting the Photoshop preferences?

Preferences in Photoshop

"Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift (Windows) or Option+Command+Shift (Mac OS) as you start Photoshop. You are prompted to delete the current settings. The new preferences files are created the next time you start Photoshop."