Spot healing brush bleeding behind tool outline

Question

I'm having problems with the spot healing brush tool. When I drag the tool, it's effect is bleeding behind the tool outline. For some reason it's not restricted to the tool outline. When I just click once, it works fine and heals exactly the round spot where the tool outline is, but when I start dragging it, it bleeds over and is very inaccurate and starts working on pixels that I obviously don't want affected! (See attached pic, I had to take a picture of my screen as a screenshot doesn't capture the tool outline preview)

This only seems to happen for the spot healing brush, not other tools or brushes. I've reset the tool presets for it and all tools, closed and re-opened Photoshop. What should I do next? Thanks for any help!

CShubert · Accepted Answer

Hi @Davesurfer thanks for sharing.

Let's make sure we're in a default state and there are no stale settings somewhere:

Restore your preferences using this manual method:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually 

Does it work correctly?

If that doesn't solve it, you can quit Photoshop and put the Settings folder back.

It may help if we could see your Photoshop System Info. Launch Photoshop, and select Help >System Info...and copy/paste the text in a reply.

Thank you,

CShubert · Answer

Good to hear @Davesurfer, it is hard to know or tell as every customer has unique settings. It can be a trial and error method, bring two in, restart, does the issue return... if not, two more. There really is not a fast way to be able to determine which one/two were the cause of the issue.

Thank you,

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