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Photoshop CC Clone Stamp not working for me

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
July 2, 2013
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There was another thread about this, several people reported this problem, but so far no response from Adobe. Let's try this again.

The Clone Stamp no longer works right. It's slow and sampling results are all over the place. It will sample from areas I never even ALT clicked on. And it can't keep up with rapid sampling and stamping. As is, Photoshop CC is totally unusable for photo retouching work.

I switched back to CS6, which still works fine, so the problem is NOT on my end.

Running Windows 7 64bit. Photoshop CC 64bit.

Can we get some response from Adobe please ??

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rachelleburgett

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I have had the exact same thing happen randomly. I found this solution after digging through my clone stamp settings panel.

In the above screen shot, notice the option "clipped" is checked. Click that option off (no check mark) and see if it starts working again. It did for me.

Hope it helps! I have been puzzled by this for a while now!

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janec20116499

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I have the same problem with the clone and healing brush tools. And its now Oct 2017 and Adobe still have not resolved this. For example the clone tool sometimes doesn't work at all and sometimes only works for the first sampling and not the second - making it useable. I am trying very hard to learn how to use Photoshop (for photography) and it doesn't help when functions clearly do not work properly.

I do not have a graphics tablet or anything strange on my computer that would cause any issues that I know about. And I havn't used any earlier version of Photoshop so only have experience of CC - but am very disappointed as it is stopping me from progressing with my photography.

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na47409638

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Yes I have the same problem too. What my clone stamp does is (to me) not even taking in anything. And I use the tool, it magnifies what I want to Clone.

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MarkJosephAnthony

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Hi everyone,

I was 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. Sounds too simple to be true but appears to do the trick.

(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.

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dlp3l6

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If you have installed the Tidal app, uninstall it and restart PS. Not sure why, but it causes the Clone Stamp tool, Selection tool, and Healing Brush (could be other tools as well) to not function. Once Tidal is uninstalled, everything should go back to normal. D#*n you, Jay-Z!

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CarlosFL-VTour

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I'm having the exact same problem. with MAC

The Clone Stamp no longer works right. It's slow and sampling results are all over the place

I just copy folder the plug in & preset from 2015cc to the new folder ver 2015.5 folder plug in & preset and works good now.

The new upgrade need to do this copy.

kloer43508311

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Hi, I'm having the exact same issue with the stamp tool in CC...

I have a brand new Macbook Pro on which I used SC6 for one day before deciding to upgrade to CC. I instantly noticed the stamp tool lag in CC. It's very slow, the sample cloned (after option-click) only appears after a few seconds which makes it impossible to work at a fast pace. I tried SC6 again and it works perfectly fine.

Has anyone figured out a solution to this problem?? Did Adobe fix this bug? Thanks.

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martygottlieb3000

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I am having the same problem with Clone Stamp in Photoshop CC. Clone Stamp tool "sticks", stamps areas that I have not selected, does not stamp where I do have it selected, and sometimes paints wild swaths across the image. And any audio I am listening to will BUZZZZ while this happens.

I've been using PS for about 2 years now and this started with the intro of CC. And it is a big issue for me.

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GRAFfix-Pro

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Sorry if this is the wrong way to do this, but hitting reply was the only way I saw to add my two cents in. I too just installed the latest Photoshop upgrade and now my clone stamp tool is not working. It is picking up stuff that is not on the photo. Dark redish brown blobs and so forth. I am also running Windows 7 on a 64 bit system. I also upgraded at home this morning so I will have to see if my home Photoshop is doing this also.

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dloj

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Hi dstix,

I found that the gpu was the problem. I went to Edit - Performance - Graphics Processor Settings and unchecked Use Graphics Processor. My clone worked after that. Funny how Photoshop the main, other than illustrator, graphics program has to have the gpu turned off for it work right, cmon adobe.

jbm007

Community Expert

Try come on Nvidia and AMD

Thdeir drivers have broken more things on PS then they have fixed.

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bens38777998

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Mine doesn't work either. I find it hard to believe it's my computer.

alansabout

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Hi all. THIS FIXED IT FOR ME I had this same problem with clone stamp sometimes it would work, but not very well, but most of the time when I hit the alt key it looked like it was working but the best it would do was show a preview but would not clone, I kept changing settings in PS. I am running a duel boot setup with windows 7 (PS installed) and windows 10 preview so I installed PS on that OS same problem, I have another system running windows 8.1 so installed it on that "bingo" runs fine so I'm thinking it must be a hardware problem, by this time I have made so many changes to PS I needed to set it to default settings. SO Press alt ctrl + shift and launch PS from ether desktop shortcut or CC while pressing keys a dialogue box should pop up asking if you want to set default settings click yes, it worked, I was amazed I think what PS is doing is setting itself up wrong when it installs or get's a major update, now cloning OK. Hope this works for you.