Inpainting Brush Tool stopped working

[Kajsa]

Hi! I'm editing old family photos from the 60's and been using the inpainting brush for cleaing away dust and scratches and its great. On one photo I started playing around with other tools and on my return to the inpaintig brush it isn't showing the red stroke and instead of painting over some dust it just makes a copy of it. How do I make it work as I want again? Been searching for answers... I closed and opened the file and the program. Working on an iMac. Regards from a sad member from Sweden

 

Edited December 5, 2024 by Kajsa
Add photo on request

[PaulEC]

Hej, @Kajsa, välkommen till forumet

It would probably help if you could post a screen grab of the full screen, showing the settings and layers.

(I'm assuming you're sure you're not using the Clone Tool by mistake!)

[GarryP]

I can’t see anything wrong in the screenshot but that doesn’t mean that nothing is wrong.

• The Brush settings on the Context Toolbar seem to be okay, but I don’t know how large the area being inpainted is or which Brush is being used.
• The “Current Layer & Below” setting seems to be correct for what’s being done.
• The layer being inpainted has 100% Opacity and a Normal Blend Mode, but I can’t see what the Blend Options are.
• The Inpainting Brush Tool only works within the active Pixel Selection if one exists, but making a pixel selection would normally be mentioned in the History Panel.
• The Quick Mask is OFF.

@Kajsa

1. Is the document RGB or something else?
2. Have you tried inpainting without the filters and adjustments being active?
3. Have you tried changing to a different Brush and or brush size?
4. Can you share the document?

[Kajsa]

So I decided to restart my iMac before trying again and before sharing the file. Now it worked for a moment. But it's gone. I now see the red stroke but it still makes a copy instead of inpainting. What have I done??? Its driving me crazy!

Edited December 5, 2024 by Kajsa

[Kajsa]

So when I work on the file 24 the inpainting brush doesn't work so I made a new one called Photoneedshelp but in that file the tool works. 

24.afphoto Photoneedshelp.afphoto

[carl123]

You have a small pixel selection active, use...

Select > Deselect

and it will be OK

[Kajsa]

So easy but so far away since I didn't know I had selected anything. Thank you!!! 😊