Georgia Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Hi after selecting the region which shall be cloned both brushes don´t work anymore. Maybe my fault, I have tried the Help but for the brushes there are only headlines (links don´t work) Gerhard cmm09c 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Leigh Posted February 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2015 Once you have the Clone or Healing brush selected, you need to press & hold the ALT key and single left click to set the source. Let go of ALT and you'll notice a small back cross where you set the source. Now move your brush to set the distance between your source & destination and start editing. Hope this helps. Welcome to the forum :) Georgia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgia Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 Well, so I made no mistake because I did exactly that but the "start editing work" did not happen :) cmm09c 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Leigh Posted February 11, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2015 Strange. Does your image have more than one layer at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted February 11, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2015 Gerhard, Can you give me me more info about this pls :) . I'm trying to work out if there is a problem in the Help. "..tried the Help but for the brushes there are only headlines (links don´t work)" I tried a search for cloning which gave me the Cloning and Healing topic. How did you get to broken links. Cheers Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgia Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 Hi Andy, I searched for clone brush and got 4 or 5 headlines about it. They turned blue when I went mouse over and showed all signs of an active link but when I clicked nothing happened. I attached a screen shot all the links related to affinity don´t work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgia Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 and Leigh, no it was a simple jpg file and I just tried all the tools to improve the photo which btw went really fine cmm09c 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted February 12, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 12, 2015 Gerhard, Interesting - I couldn't reproduce this but I did notice that your help is showing in a Safari window. I'm not sure how you got that to happen but this may explain the links being broken. Can you confirm that you clicked the Help>Affinity Photo Help and then searched on the top-right input box within the Help itself. Thanks for taking the time to reply by the way. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmm09c Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I am having the same issue with the clone brush not working. Posted about it... maybe you can see it here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&search_app=forums&mid=10757&sid=44644f415961ae713c2e48eeb6c5045f&search_app_filters[forums][searchInKey]=&userMode=content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyotadesigner Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I'm on Mavericks and the Affinity Photo Help search function doesn't work. The wheel starts spinning and nothing happens. No, wrong, the CPU starts heating up und Help doesn't respond anymore. So basically I've learned AP from the Videos or some posts or questions here. hobbyists discuss new camera features photographers discuss new software masters discuss light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 14, 2015 Staff Share Posted May 14, 2015 @toyotadesigner, Yes, what you're describing happens here too (Mavericks). I've reported this before. Instead of searching using the Help window, use the search field from the app menu instead, until this issue is solved. It works fine there. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyotadesigner Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Hi MEB, that's what I've also tried. No success, same wheel spinning forever without presenting any result. But don't panic, I don't need all features for my images, I'm just curious and sometimes start playing with the features. To be honest, in most cases all I need is the clone tool to remove dust on scanned images, curve to slightly modify specific areas and resize image so agency or customer staff won't get a heart attack when opening the monsters. hobbyists discuss new camera features photographers discuss new software masters discuss light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 14, 2015 Staff Share Posted May 14, 2015 Doesn't work either? That's weird :huh: It seems to work fine for me... I'm afraid I can't be more helpful here. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted May 14, 2015 Staff Share Posted May 14, 2015 We can reproduce the Affinity Photo help search not working in Mavericks. Help Center (Help>Search) does work for us. And yet I though it was the other way round a few weeks ago. Bonkers. \Andy Capstick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acelensman Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Hi Don't know if anyone is still having difficulty with various brushes not working. I have just bought Affinity Photo and found this happening to me. What I did which seemed to fix it is this : Go to your layers palette and unlock the background layer - as soon as I did this the brushes worked. Hope that helps. Acelensman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoli642 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 My healing brush tool is not working! Not reacting to the option key. I have wireless keyboard and Intous pro pen on my Mac Pro (under 10.11.6 El Capitan). When I push the option key, breafly show up the hear line, but when I touch the Intous surface with my pen the marks disappear and show the healing brush warning sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furtonb Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 My healing brush tool is not working! Not reacting to the option key. I have wireless keyboard and Intous pro pen on my Mac Pro (under 10.11.6 El Capitan). When I push the option key, breafly show up the hear line, but when I touch the Intous surface with my pen the marks disappear and show the healing brush warning sign. Similar here with the Wacom (Intuos 5), but not even a warning sign pops when the pen reaches the surface. [ Offtopic: Could you try what I am describing in this thread regarding the brush size/hardness changing? ( https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/33131-wacom-intuos-problems-brush-sizehardness-setting-not-workingzooming/ ) I don't know, whether these problems are Wacom or Serif related (a driver issue maybe?), or is it just me, but I desperately need a solution. ] My Wacom driver is up to date, 6.3.19-6, if anyone would wonder. MBP 15" + iPad Pro 10,5" macOS High Sierra 10.14 | iOS 13 | latest Affinity Photo & Designer & Publisher (and Betas) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan R Jones Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Happy New Year everyone! I am experiencing similar problems with the healing brush using my new iMac27 5K computer. I opened an image, chose the healing brush, click and dragged the circle over the area I wanted to affect and got the orange trail over the area and it worked on several areas. I then stopped and saved my work and closed the image out, opened it up again and tried to continue on other areas of the image and nothing....kept getting the drop down message I need to click and drag and I did do that....what's up with this tool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1CH Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 I have stumbled upon this after struggling with the brush on my first ever attempt. I seem to have sorted it simply by clicking on "current layer and below" at the top of the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalterS Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I had the same problem. Here's the fix. First, make sure you have "Current Layer & Below" selected on the tool bar at the top. Then set Hardness, Flow and Opacity all to 100% (you can adjust these later). These are on the tool bar at the top, too. And make sure the Background pixel layer is selected. Then select the region you want to clone by holding down the Option key and clicking your mouse. It works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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