Spot Healing Brush Tool seems to sample from incorrect areas in Photoshop 24.3.0

[marg4]

Photoshop 24.3.0 (updated 3 days ago)

Windows 11 Pro 22H2, build 22621.1413

Recreation steps:

Help --> Hands-on tutorials

- open the tutorial for Photo Editing --> Retouch photos --> Use the healing brush tools to remove unwanted content

- followed initial steps and created new layer, made sure "Sample All Layers" was checked in the Spot Healing Brush Tool

- dragging  over the letter L seems to sample from the wrong area

- dragging over the letter O again samples from wrong area. Parts of the letter that was on brick-colored surface are now filled with withe-colored bricks, and parts of the letter on white-colored area are now replaced by brick-colored area

This is reproducable not only in this tutorial, but anywhere you use the Spot Healing Brush Tool: samples to replace the "painted" area are random.

This is working fine in Photoshop 24.1.1

[Imaginerie · Accepted solution]

Sorry to hear this!
I wasn't able to reproduce this problem:
Does it happen with the standard healing brush as well, or just the SPOT healing brush?
You might want to check if "content-aware" is checked (instead of proximity match)  as well as "sample all layers"... And see if it now acts as intended

If it doesn't help, you can reset your preferences (check in edit>preferences>general, click on "reset preferences on quit")

Not before having saved all your presets (workspaces, custom shortcuts etc)

Then you can quit Photoshop and open again.

Hope it will help!

[marg4]

@Imaginerie

Thanks for the quick reply. It was beginners user error, checking Content-Aware solved the problem.

Many thanks.

[Imaginerie]

Glad it helped 🙂