clone stamp help (and other tools screwing up!!)

[noreenmachine]

Hi there. I'm having uber problems with Photoshop. The clone stamp worked fine last week, but isn't now. I tried re-installing about 100 times and it's still not working. The eraser, paint brush and clone stamp tool barely show up when I'm using any of them. Even if the brush is as big as a toilet seat, I still only get a pencil width of paint, erasing or cloned areas. I've tried reseting the tool to it's default and still... nothing.

Any thoughts on what I can do?? Arghh! I'm going to have no hair left soon.

Thanks.

 

[thombathe]

Did you check to see if the brush is set to 100%
Also check the scratch disc if your disc is full there is nothing to write back to.

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[noreenmachine]

Hi. Yes my brushes, clone stamp and eraser are all set to 100% and my scratch disk is my C: drive which has 60 gigs of space on it.

It's still not working.

- Machine

 

[thombathe]

You said you reloaded photoshop this would reset all your tools, did you load any new programs?
Do you have another hard drive? can you create one and reload photoshop on that one?
thom

The longest jounney starts with the first step.

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[noreenmachine]

Hi there. Unfortunately, I don't have my hard drive partitioned - I just have the one drive.

My boyfriend did load Star Wars Galaxies on my machine, but he assures me that it would have no affect on photoshop. I'm at a loss, unless I uninstall the game just to see.

- Machine

 

[Kliot]

Machine,

I think I see a problem here, your dating a guy that is still into star wars, that can create all kinds of problems... Just kidding...

I have not come across this problem before but the first thing I would try it trashing your preferences file. I'm starting to feel like this is my advice to almost all problems but It's always a good place to start. Hold the Ctrl-Alt-Shift key when Photoshop is first starting to load and you will be asked if you want to delete the Photoshop settings file, say yes. These files get corrupt and cause strange behavior, reinstalling Photoshop won't replace them.

Keep us posted.
Perrin

 

[noreenmachine]

Hey there. I laughed at your comment, Kliot. haha. Yes, dating a guy that is into star wars AND trek IS a bit of a problem - heehee - but that's a topic for ANOTHER thread.

I joined another thread and someone gave me a simple answer.

"Try going into the brushes palette and unchecking shape dynamics"

It worked like a charm. So no corrupt file, no need to reformat! Yayy!