Clone brush turns dark over bright areas

[edgarH]

I'm trying to use the clone brush to repair areas that are completely washed out by bright sunlight.

In the first images you can see I have selected from the pink area and successfully cloned onto the red area above. But in the second image (CloneBrushDarken) the brush turns very dark when I move over an area that was washed out. I have tried all combination of opacity, flow and hardness. Blend mode is Normal.

What am I doing wrong?

[R C-R]

11 minutes ago, edgarH said:

But in the second image (CloneBrushDarken) the brush turns very dark when I move over an area that was washed out.

I am not sure what you are trying to do but if you set the brush to the Darken blend mode, that is what it will do. If you don't want that, choose another brush blend mode.

[edgarH]

As I stated, blend mode is set to Normal. As to the reply by owenr, Aligned option is turned off. Besides, the preview turns dark as soon as I move over the bright area before I even click to brush.

I found one other post about this problem titled Cloning Brush Going Dark but there were no solutions posted. I have to assume now this is a bug with my installation.

[toltec]

18 minutes ago, edgarH said:

As I stated, blend mode is set to Normal. As to the reply by owenr, Aligned option is turned off. Besides, the preview turns dark as soon as I move over the bright area before I even click to brush.

I found one other post about this problem titled Cloning Brush Going Dark but there were no solutions posted. I have to assume now this is a bug with my installation.

@R C-Ranswered your question.

If you have the brush mode set to Darken, that is what will happen. Set it to Normal

[edgarH]

Found my solution - silly me. I was cloning onto an area that was previously selected and darkness with the Brightness/Contrast adjustment. I didn't realize that the brightness adjustment would be in effect when cloning over that area. Problem solved.

[toltec]

1 minute ago, owenr said:

 

The mode was not set to Darken.

Why are you and R C-R  not seeing the explicit statement in the original post that the mode was Normal?

 

Because the OP said "But in the second image (CloneBrushDarken)" and that gives exactly the result in the image he (and later I) posted.

Note the "Darken" in the (CloneBrushDarken)

[toltec]

17 minutes ago, owenr said:

That was the name of a posted image because of the appearance of the result, not the name of the tool's blending mode. Then the following sentence was: "Blend mode is Normal."

 

Maybe. but there are two blend mode settings, one in the Context menu for the brush, one for the Layer. The OP may have been confused, which is why I posted a screengrab showing the Context menu. @R C-Rand I were trying to find a solution for him.

The thing is, when I set the Context Menu brush mode to Darken, I exactly (more or less, allowing for clicking on a different source, etc) duplicated the results that the OP got. See my post above.

How would you explain that?

[R C-R]

14 minutes ago, owenr said:

That was the name of a posted image because of the appearance of the result, not the name of the tool's blending mode. Then a following sentence was: "Blend mode is Normal."

As @toltec mentioned, that could just as easily have referred to the layer's blend mode rather than the tool's blend mode. That is why I wrote "if you set the brush to the Darken blend mode..." At the time, I thought that would make it clear.what I was talking about, but in retrospect I guess I did not do a very good job of doing that. 

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, toltec said:

How would you explain that?

2 hours ago, edgarH said:

I was cloning onto an area that was previously selected and darkness with the Brightness/Contrast adjustment.

These operations provide the same result.

[toltec]

1 minute ago, owenr said:

edgarH discovered and posted the explanation: he was cloning into an area that was being darkened by a Brightness & Contrast adjustment.

 

Indeed, but until the reason for these "odd" happenings are actually discovered, all possible solutions to the problem are worth mentioning.

After all, you yourself got it wrong too

2 hours ago, owenr said:

I suspect you have the Aligned option enabled in the context toolbar

We now have a third option for a solution to the problem if somebody else needs help

2 hours ago, edgarH said:

cloning onto an area that was previously selected and darkness with the Brightness/Contrast adjustment.

 

[toltec]

1 minute ago, owenr said:

 

Yes, I got it wrong, but I didn't follow the OP's correct explanation (the Brightness/Contrast adjustment) with a contradictory claim that R C-R had been correct.

I think I was writing that post whilst the OP was writing his answer, so I did not actually see the OPs answer while I was writing it. Only afterwards.

It's all a question of timing, you see ?

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, owenr said:

It's clear that you were talking about Darken in the context of the brush's blend mode and never mentioned a layer's blend mode.

Since there are (as far as I know) only the two blend modes to consider, I thought (apparently incorrectly) that mentioning one would preclude the need to explicitly mention that I was not talking about the other.