Clone stamp / bit depth issue

[PhiliciaE]

Hope I can find help here.  I need to copy between 2 pics.  Clone stamp says my 2 images have different bit depth but they don't.  Same photo session, same camera, same lens, etc.  Photos were taken within minutes of each other.  I need to copy sky from one pic to the other.  How can I get my clone stamp to work?  Photoshop has been updated 25.6.0 version.

Thanks for (simple) answers please 🙂 

[Bojan Živković]

I am still running the previous update, so I cannot check on my end. If that's not a bug, then try to reset the tool; if that doesn't work, attempt a preference reset.

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

The question is how the raw file has been processed, not how it was originally shot. That it's the same camera is irrelevant.

The bit depth is set in ACR's workflow options. The default used to be 8 bits per channel, this was fairly recently changed to 16 bits per channel. If it comes from Lightroom, this is set in Lightroom Preferences > External Editing, where the default has always been 16 bits per channel.

All that said - this is a somewhat awkward way to do it. It's much simpler to just stack them and use layer masks.

[PhiliciaE]

You were so right.  When I process both files in ACR all was fine.  The problem was when only one file was processed and other left untouched.  Many thanks!

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