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can't move source on heal & clone tool

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
June 4, 2024
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Same bug as here in Lightroom, which was fixed with LRC 13.3.1

P: Remove tool clone and heal is missing source ha... - Page 3 - Adobe Community - 14635600

"When using the clone and heal options of the revised remove tool, Lightroom automatically picks a source area as previously, however there is now (Lightroom Classic v13.3 on Windows 11) no way to change this manually. The drag handle doesn't appear when hovering over the source area. The tool overlay is visible, I can see both the source area and destination. The destination area can be moved and dragged, the handle appears when the cursor is over this, but not for the source area."

Windows

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oksana_0366

New Participant

I have been always retouching and removing objests in images using heal & clone tool. Today is 19th April 2025 and it stopped working. I can not move "the chosen area" or spot to any other place, only what CameraRaw automaticle chooses. It is devastating and unexaptable. I was using the older version of Camera Raw, so i thought the problem is there. I've cleans up the memory and stopeed all othe programs working as some people were mentioning that it is a memory problem. It did not help. The I have updated to the latest vesion of Caera Raw 17.2.0 and nothing works as well. I would very much apreciate you help here. As now the Photoshop with CameraRaw is unusable tool for me.

Erik Bloodaxe

Brainiac

There is no solution of which I am aware but this has been discussed here starting around a year ago.

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David Lake Photos

Known Participant

Still happening in March 2025! Have had this probelm since summer of last year - WTH!

This issue occurs most often when I click the first spot and then shift+click to draw a "line" of heal range. It almost never lets me move the source.

MANY OF US USE THIS TOOL EVERYDAY. FIX THIS ISSUE, THIS IS IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!

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cprowler@msn.com

New Participant

Ditto. A formerly reliable, efficient tool is broken. Knock-knock. Why is Adobe not addressing this issue?

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

It seems to be related to a memory issue. Try purging history or saving and reopening.

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David Lake Photos

Known Participant

This is not fixable by saving and reopening. IT IS FIXABLE BY ADOBE FIXING THIS UNACCEPTABLE BUG!!!

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Just_Alex_

New Participant

January 2025 and still cant choose source area for clone or healing in ACR. Why do we pay so much for our subscriptions when basic features dont work?!

eric_brb

Inspiring

I'm still seeing the issue intermittently with the latest version 17.2. I'm not sure why it *sometimes* gives me the icon to manually reposition the source...because, when it works, it seems to stay working. When I don't get the option, I can't find any *trick* to get it to work. I've tried disabling hardware acceleration, but that doesn't make a difference.

Note that I can always reposition the target and us the option to refresh the source, but I usually want to pick a source area when I use the heal tool.

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DGBLONDON

New Participant

I've had the same issue. It appears to be a memory or cache problem which arises when I have already made lots of remove adjustments. When I then open a fresh picture, the tool works fine. My immediate workflow solution is to do the clone adjustments first before the cache builds up. I'm using a 2019 iMac intel core i5. If anyone has the same problem with a more powerful Mac it would be good to know.

eric_brb

Inspiring

I first encountered this on an image with no heal or clone adjustments.

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djohansen

New Participant

Also experiencing here! PS 25.9.1 / Camera Raw 16.4

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

I'm experiencing the same bug -- extremely annoying and time-consuming!!!

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TFAD1

Inspiring

In certain circumstances when using the heal and clone tools, if the source mask is an irregular area (ie click and hold the mouse while moving around to select and area) I am often unable to reposition the target. When I move the mouse over the clone location, the reposition arrow does not appear. Sometimes the reposition arrow does appear, but it is some distance above the selected area. It seems to happen when zoomed in greater than 200%.

When the source mask is a circle (ie single click of the mouse) then I am still able to reposition the clone, no matter what size the circle and what level of zoom.

This has only just started happening and I use these tools all the time, so it's a real pain.

Anyone else having this problem?