Clone Layer Has Color Cast

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
July 23, 2024
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In the attached screenshot, a student ofm ine has retouched on a layer using the Clone Stamp and the Spot Healing brush. He did so after using a Levels adjustment layer. I checked his settings, the Blend mode in the tool options bar at the top of the monitor is set to normal. Protect tones was off. I tried replicating his set up on my end and got the expected clone layer without the blue cast seen in the screenshot below.

Any ideas as to what is causing this color cast from the clone stamp?

Thank you.

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Earth Oliver

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your student messed up and cloned above the adjustment instead of below.

michael e sternAuthor

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Thank for replying but you are incorrect. I've been retouching in this manner for decades, it is an efficient and proper procedure.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Check the sample options:

michael e sternAuthor

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All Layers was properly selected. That isn't the issue unfortuately.

michael e sternAuthor

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The layer order is bg, adjustment layer, clone layer.

By @michael e stern

And that's exactly when this happens if sampling is set to "all layers".

The only other possibility, if that's not the layer order, is corrupt preferences and a reset should fix it. Preferences are prone to corruption because they are rewritten on every application exit, as opposed to read-only program files. Any irregular application shutdown can corrupt the preferences.

I thought of that too and will try that but the issue at hand appeared on only this single photograph. No issues before or after the image at hand. He's literally retouched 100's of images that past year, most going through a protcol I designed for him to follow. Thanks for contributing. Thank you everybody.

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