Inpaint Brush tool leaves a purple haze where I use it.

[Bynah]

As carefully as I go, it always leaves a silvery purplish haze in it's path. Help! I have a lot to remove with it and it takes a lot of time to have to keep going over it with the healing or stamp too.

[Bynah]

And now I can't even clone over it. It won't go away. From the middle of this donkey's muzzle to the left I tried cloning over it and it won't go away!

 

 

 

[GarryP]

If you can share the original image then we can try it for ourselves and see if we can reproduce the problem.

(If you ZIP the image file before attaching it we will get the image as-is rather than a version of the image which the forum software has modified for display.)

My first guess is that it may be something to do with Colour Spaces (RGB vs. CMYK, or something similar) but I can’t tell, and I don’t know much about them anyway.

Also, which brush are you using and what are the settings for that brush? (Not which brush tool but the actual brush you’re using with the tools.)

P.S. The barbed wire seems to have a bit of a purple tint to it but I don’t know if that’s relevant.

[Bynah]

Here you go. Thank you so much for helping me!

P1020182.JPG.zip

[GarryP]

Thanks for sharing the image but it doesn’t seem to match either of the images you show in your examples – it’s more difficult to diagnose a problem when we are working with different things.

Also you didn’t answer the question about which brush you were using.

Nevertheless, I tried using the Inpainting Brush Tool on your supplied image and it’s working fine for me – see attached video.

Try using the brush I’m using with the Inpainting Brush Tool settings (on the Context Toolbar) which I’m using on the image you supplied and see what happens.

If you don’t get the same result as me then we will need more information, but we won’t know what information until you try it and then show us the difference (preferably with full-screen screenshots and/or video).

[firstdefence]

Same for me, worked very well.

In addition to Garrys insight, I notice on the screenshot it says Current layer and below, do you have any layers beneath the donkey image that would account for this discolouration?

[Bynah]

no, thank you all so much. Sorry to take a while to answer. I have moved onto other projects at the moment. Wow, Garry! that's amazing.  I just tried the brush you suggested and it worked! Problem solved. thank you so much!

[GarryP]

Ah, okay, so changing the brush helped, which is good, but it would have been nice to know which brush you were using to see if the result could be replicated in order to find out why the problem occurred.

Either way, you're welcome, and I'm glad you managed to get things fixed.

[firstdefence]

18 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Ah, okay, so changing the brush helped, which is good, but it would have been nice to know which brush you were using to see if the result could be replicated in order to find out why the problem occurred.

Either way, you're welcome, and I'm glad you managed to get things fixed.

I got a similar effect to the OP issue when having a hard brush head, half again as wide as the barbed wire and the brush head being off centre from the barbed wire when inpainting, I used the Basic 16px hard brush.

[Bynah]

I could try to replicate the problem doing this. I am pretty sure it was from having a variety of brushes beside the one GarryP suggested. It's easy to accidentally get on the wrong brush and set it without realizing. Sadly, you can't tell what brush you were on before. Did V2 fix that problem? I have it but am not wanting to upgrade to Catalina to use it.

[Bynah]

So, just for the fun of it, I tried a variety of brushes, left to right. the first one was as firstdefence suggested. that definitely made a haze or smear. As I moved right I changed to different widths and variety of brushes with varying results. Some were done holding the shift key down and extending to another length to get a straight line.

But I am glad to know I just need to use basic brush simple and that problem is solved. Thanks for all your help!