Spot Healing Brush no longer 'drags' to heal things?

[adobeses1995]

Some time ago, my Spot Healing Brush tool stopped working where I could 'drag' the tool (dragging while holding down the button) to, for instance, remove a dead tree branch. I can use the regular healing brush tool in this manner (as both had both functioned for many years), but with one of the updates, the Spot Healing Brush tool will now only heal a single 'click' with no dragging. 

In other words, you can heal whatever is inside the size of the brush circle size (i.e. a round dust spot) but you cannot drag it to fix something like a garden tool laying in a lawn. 

I've seen directions saying to 'reset the tool' by right clicking on the tool, but I cannot seem to make that happen. 

If someone could please help me solve this it would be an enormous help. 

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

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@adobeses1995 wrote:

I've seen directions saying to 'reset the tool' by right clicking on the tool, but I cannot seem to make that happen. 

Here's how to reset the tool. Try this first and let us know if it fixes your issue:

"To return tools to their default settings, right-click or Control-click (macOS with one-button mouse) the tool icon in the options bar, and then choose Reset Tool or Reset All Tools from the context menu."

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/using-tools.html

Jane

[adobeses1995]

Thank you. I just found another post with a screen shot of how to reset the tool (I was trying to right click the tool in the menu bar, whereas I needed to be at the location at the upper left in the header bar when the tool is already selected, if that makes sense. Not sure how this happened but at least it is working now. 

[jane-e]

You're welcome, @adobeses1995 and I'm glad it's working for you now.

~ Jane

[jaksnz_at_tdd]

Awesome, yes I get it now.  Ctrl-click on the tool icon of the header bar.  I have click and drag back.... thank you