Photoshop CC 2017 missing spot healing brush

[Mary Lou Frost]

In my toolbox I find a bandaid icon which is only for the healing brush.  I can't find the spot healing brush.  Where it it?

Mary Lou

[davescm · Accepted solution]

Click and hold on the healing brush and the other options in the same toolbar location will become visible

If spot healing is still not in that list right-click on the 3 dots and open up the toolbar customize menu. Ensure the spot healing brush is dragged into that group.

Dave

[ElizabethGailLittle]

I also found my missing spot healing brush with your directions.  How can I get it to appear on the toolbar?  Also, when I use the instructions to customize the toolbar, absolutely nothing happens!  Not after I click Done, not after I restart PS, never!  What am I doing wrong?  I'm using your excellent tutorial and sometimes having trouble matching my options with yours.

Gail

[davescm]

Hi Elizabeth - try resetting the toolbar.

Go to the three dots and right click

In the menu that opens click on "Restore Defaults" - then Click "Done"

Dave

[ElizabethGailLittle]

Thanks for the response.  But I'd really like to customize the toolbar!  Is there no way to do that in 2017?  Also, I don't seem to have the option to sample all layers.  Presents problem trying to learn to retouch.

[davescm]

Hi Elizabeth

You should be able to customise

Can you show a screenshot of the customize dialogue before you hit done and then the toolbar afterwards with the relevant tool slot expanded by clicking and holding

Dave

[ElizabethGailLittle]

Thanks for the explanation - I didn't really understand how the tool slots

worked. It seems to be ok! When I expand one, it has what I wanted. I

thought the Toolbar itself had the tools I placed at the top at the top!

I'm doing something new, so I'm watching the retouching videos. It's been

quite a while since I watched the entire series, so I'm having a hard

time. There are times when you're using keyboard shortcuts that I'm not

familiar with, so I can't follow what's happening and how to follow and

have to repeat, pause, go hunt/peck/try etc. It is extremely helpful but

hard to pick up in the middle. Naturally I am unwilling to start over - I

am familiar with the things I learned initially that I use all the time,

but have lost things I don't use.

Thanks for your response - I appreciate the help.

Gail

[davescm]

The toolbar will normally retain the last used tool at the "front" of each toolbar slot.

If you get stuck in a video - post a link to the video and say at what time the part you are you are unsure of is and we will try and help. It's best to do that in a new post.

Some of the best tutorial videos are on Lynda.com - you can get a free trial (it currently says 30 days).

Dave

[ElizabethGailLittle]

THANKS!

Gail

[Mary Lou Frost]

Thanks.  I found the spot healing brush when I followed your directions to edit the toolbox.  I don't know how it left the toolbox but ow I know how to get it back!

Mary Lou

[vinomoni]

I can't find the 3 dots or the spot healing brush .... help

[jane-e]

Hi @vinomoni 

What version of Photoshop do you have? If you have a newer version of PS, you can also go to Edit > Toolbar.

~ Jane

[vinomoni]

thanks I fond it there

[jane-e]

You're welcome, @vinomoni . Happy to help.

~ Jane