CS3 patch tool stopped working

[ronald_moravec1]

Intel Mac Tiger. It was working earlier today and now it stopped.

 

I define the "bad" area. Move the patch to the good and the good pixels illuminate inside the "bad' selection. When I release the mouse,

the good pixels do not transfer.

 

Source is selected. I have tried working in reverse using destination. No better. I even tried a single layer pic straight from the camera.

 

What/where do I reset or what is wrong.

[patricklavoie]

did you try to close / reopen photoshop? another images? are you on the background? sure youre not on a layer? transparent is not selected?

[nathan_stiles]

Patrick asked my questions and some others-- but in addition to being on the wrong layer, make sure you didn't select the layer mask. Never tried patch tool like that, so I have no idea what it would do if you were on a layer mask instead of the layer.

[ronald_moravec1]

I closed and reopened several times. Tried working on a background layer and a copy layer and renamed background layer

to layer zero. Transparent is not selected. No layer masks are in use.

 

Somes times a patch will move and but be transparent although transparent is not selected, usually it just will not replace

although the new pixels are there before I release the mouse.

[ronald_moravec1]

I am trying to use the patch tool to fix the background in lower right. Pixels will not transfer, I then took out two buttons

on the neckline with two operations and it worked, then I tried the background again and it failed.

 

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[KenPapai]

That patch tool is weird, sometimes it doesn't work as advertised.

Instead I just copy and past the brown background over the dark background:<div></div>

[ronald_moravec1]

I found many references to my exact problem on various forums, and there we no solutions presented.

 

This prompted a call to Adobe and a tech rep. He said my tool was working properly. According to the experiment we did, the procedure was worthless for any photo process. Now it is time to experiment on my own.

 

My conclusion is the patch tool has considerable transparency built in whether or not the transparency box is checked. It does not have the power to cover tan over black. In fact I can not cover medium shades unless I do the patch, then run a levels on the selection to punch it up.

 

You would think the Adobe tech rep could have explained this transparency rather than trying to tell me I was using the tool improperly and that it was the wrong tool for the job.

 

I finished the picture with the clone tool and the airbrush tool and got a near perfect job.

 

Hope this helps somone in the future.

[patricklavoie]

a simple airbrush would ahve done it easily to start.

 

I think its also the responsability of the user to educted himself on how to properly use a complex tool.

 

As a retoucher, i would have never choose the healing brush or the patch tool to cover this.