Clone Stamp Tool has Strange Behavior [2018]

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January 23, 2018
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Normally when using the clone stamp tool, after I select a source region on my image and begin to drag toward the target region, the source is painted into the target. However, on this startup of Photoshop, when I hold down the left mouse button, a white disc appears within my brush, and no 'painting' takes place. I have tried (a) resetting Photoshop tool settings, and (b) shutting down and restarting my iMacS High Sierra 10.13.2. Nothing helps.

any ideas appreciated as always,

jwc

macOS

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Correct answer Tunnery Wharf

I had the same issue - feathery white brush instead of the sampled pixels. I also noticed that my layer selection in the layer panel was red instead of usual bright gray. Turns out I had Quick Mask mode on (the button below the foreground/background color that looks like the Japanese flag if the Quick Mask is on or EU flag if it's off). Hope this helps!

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Tunnery WharfCorrect answer

Participant

I had the same issue - feathery white brush instead of the sampled pixels. I also noticed that my layer selection in the layer panel was red instead of usual bright gray. Turns out I had Quick Mask mode on (the button below the foreground/background color that looks like the Japanese flag if the Quick Mask is on or EU flag if it's off). Hope this helps!

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi @Tunnery Wharf thank you for sharing your solution! I love your descriptions of quick mask, will adopt them!

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davidh22200356

Participant

I had this problem today and was losing my mind. I went through each solution, none of them worked. I created a new image and found the clone tool worked. I then compared the two images and noticed that the image where the clone tool didn't work was "locked" and was named Background double clicking on the padlock requested a name for a new layer (Layer 0) and once I had done that, the clone tool worked as expected, no more white disc...

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

I second what Dave said about remote access. And I would add to that to be careful even about giving Adobe remote access. If you happen to contact Adobe phone support, not all of the support people are knowledgable and I know of instances where they have wrecked havoc with customer computers using remote access. Remote access should be a last resort, and even then I'd advise making a backup of your computer before doing so.

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tim_e

Participant

This is an old thread but I was having a similar 'white disc issue', if you go window-clone source you can uncheck 'show overlay' which should get rid of the disc, also if you have 'sample all layers' checked in the clone stamp bar it might not just be a white disc.

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Debra.

Participant

I tried all of the above suggestions but discovered in the end that my layer order was the problem - I was trying to clone out something that was above the clone layer. On the upside, I learned a bit more about PS.