Ridiculous levels of frustration.Alt-click has stopped selecting area of image when using the clone stamp. Any image, any layer and in images with ony background layer. I am using a yoga 12 with wacom digitizer, Win 10 x64, i5 with 8gb Ram Problem occurred previously and a rollback of an apparently unrelated software installation cured it. Have tried (as per plethora of suggestions): reset toolreset preferencesuninstall recent software x3reinstall Photoshop CCin Clone source box "clipped" is selected but layer title does not appear when trying to select. Brush dynamics set to off target does appear when alt-clicking but on trying to subsequently clone error message pops up "Could not use the clone stamp because the area to be cloned could not be defined. (Alt click to define a source point)"Any other ideas??? All assistance greatly appreciated.

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Alt-click not working for clone stamp. Frustration ++++

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March 10, 2017
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Ridiculous levels of frustration.

Alt-click has stopped selecting area of image when using the clone stamp. Any image, any layer and in images with ony background layer.

I am using a yoga 12 with wacom digitizer, Win 10 x64, i5 with 8gb Ram

Problem occurred previously and a rollback of an apparently unrelated software installation cured it.

Have tried (as per plethora of suggestions):

reset tool
reset preferences
uninstall recent software x3
reinstall Photoshop CC
in Clone source box "clipped" is selected but layer title does not appear when trying to select.
Brush dynamics set to off
target does appear when alt-clicking but on trying to subsequently clone error message pops up

"Could not use the clone stamp because the area to be cloned could not be defined. (Alt click to define a source point)"

Any other ideas??? All assistance greatly appreciated.

Correct answer MarkJosephAnthony

Hi everyone,

If you are having same problem. On Photoshop CC at least. The solution as given to me from Adobe is if you get this problem.

With clone stamp selected - press alt key by itself and release. Then try to select clone area,(alt-click) you should find that it works. It has worked for me after trying every other possible solution.

(From reading various forums the problem seems to be that other software associates itself with the alt key making it unavailable to photoshop, perhaps the single alt key press re-associates it)

This does not appear to be documented anywhere on forums or elsewhere.

Thanks to those above that made helpful suggestions.

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Rozzar1

Participant

Beatmaker 77 has come up with an answer which works.........

"I've been having that problem and just realised that if I use the Alt key left of the space bar vs the right Alt key next to the space bar, it works.... Simple solution hopefully"

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Peter26317478ei6h

Participant

Having the same issues with Photoshop 2024.

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Peter26317478ei6h

Participant

I'm having the same problem ever since I upgraded to Adobe Photoshop 2024. All my alt keys stopped working. HELP!!!!

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

@Peter26317478ei6h your replying on a 6 year old thread. Go to Apple system preferences/Security and Privacy/Full Disk Access and add and allow Photoshop to this list. PS does not have permissions to do an on-screen record (opt+click).

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annonshp

Inspiring

Solution given below does not work.

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Rafael23365845wnkq

Participating Frequently

Estou com o mesmo problema sem solução a meses, última versão da esse erro, a anterior não , quando clico alt e carimbo ele aparece a mensagem de erro do programa e não consigo mais mexer em nada , tendo que finalizar tarefa . Lamentável

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student Anna235611459wl7

Participant

Hello everyone! I found a temporary fix that can help you. So my case is a little different from everyone else's. I am on a school Chromebook and the only way I can access Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop is through this specific program that lets me log in from this Chromebook onto a physical computer at school. I also found that when I try to use alt-click from the school Chromebook it won't work. What I did is I just went to windows settings on a physical computer and opened the "On-screen keyboard" app. After, I pressed alt and could use the stamp tool perfectly fine. I really hope this helps a lot of people. You don't have to necessarily click on the physical alt key. Just use the pop-up keyboard and it will do the trick!!!!

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kjdevore

Participant

Thank you! This fixed the problem for me.

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JWGD

Participant

I was having this trouble using my Wacom tablet, but not when I used my mouse. When I went into my Wacom Tablet Properties under Mapping and turned off "Use Windows Ink" it now works properly with my Wacom when I alt-click.

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DollyDayDream

Participant

I was using a mac through an online portal to a PC at work. Some commands
were not working (neither command for mac or control for PC). I discovered
if i used the command key on my mac instead alt-click it worked! (not ideal
but a simple fix). 🙂

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DollyDayDream

Participant

Finally cracked it! Drove me crazy It's as simple as using Command-Click instead of Alt-click)

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quirky_Rocket15A8

Participant

go to

setting - Ease of Access - Narrator - (Use the narrator to read and interact with your device) OFF

la_poll

Participant

Just in case this works as a fix for anyone who has tried the above solutions and still cannot get alt + click to work (like myself), try alt option + alt + click.

This works for me.

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