Topic: Issue with CS4 and cloning (Read 2982 times)

soboyle · « **on:** January 21, 2009, 09:47:08 am »

I've been having problems with photoshop CS4 while cloning. I'll select a sample location, if I don't go really really slowly while then painting with the cloning stamp tool, the cloning appears in a different area of the photograph, usually no where near where I am working. I'm working in 64 bit CS4, vista 64, 8 gigs ram, quad core processor, with open gl enabled. Anyone else seeing this problem? Images are from canon 5D and 5D II, so are not massive in size.

digitaldog · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2009, 09:52:50 am »

Quote from: soboyle

I've been having problems with photoshop CS4 while cloning. I'll select a sample location, if I don't go really really slowly while then painting with the cloning stamp tool, the cloning appears in a different area of the photograph, usually no where near where I am working. I'm working in 64 bit CS4, vista 64, 8 gigs ram, quad core processor, with open gl enabled. Anyone else seeing this problem? Images are from canon 5D and 5D II, so are not massive in size.

Stupid question, check box for Aligned on or off?

Could be Open GL. What happens when its off?

soboyle · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2009, 10:01:46 am »

Aligned is checked, will have to test with it off, but I usually don't work with it off.

Doug Fisher · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2009, 10:51:05 am »

For many users, there is a lag with the cloning tool just like there is for the paint brush and some other tools. I am not sure if this is the same problem to which you are referring, but I thought I would mention it. You can see other threads about this on the Adobe user forums.

Doug

soboyle · « **Reply #4 on:** January 21, 2009, 11:17:17 am »

Yes, it seems like a lag issue, but hopefully there is a fix for it, because it gets annoying when there is a lot of spotting, or other stamp tool work to be done. Didn't see this problem with CS3, so seems to be either a problem with CS4 or open GL.

JeffKohn · « **Reply #5 on:** January 21, 2009, 01:10:48 pm »

Try disabling OpenGL and see if it goes away. I've found the Open GL acceleration to be more trouble than it's worth anyway.

Wolfman · « **Reply #6 on:** January 21, 2009, 01:20:44 pm »

Quote from: JeffKohn

Try disabling OpenGL and see if it goes away. I've found the Open GL acceleration to be more trouble than it's worth anyway.

Sorry to sound uninformed, but what is open GL?

JeffKohn · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:36:48 pm »

It's a standard API specification that most video cards support for 3D acceleration. Photoshop CS4 uses it to take advantage of the video card's GPU to acceleration certain graphics operations.

DiaAzul · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2009, 08:09:20 am »

Are you using a Wacom graphics tablet? I am seeing a lot of shifted movement under Vista64 in that I click and drag only to find that where I am dragging is displaced from the origin. Quite often I have to click, wait a second and then drag to get correct registration between the mouse and what I am trying to drag.

It feels as if there is a problem with the Wacom drivers not CS4 or Vista.

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