Weird Issue With Photoshop

ianbarber

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For sometime now I have been having an issue with Photoshop, I have been putting up with it but it is starting to get on my nerves now.

Issue:

I will explain the issue with the use of an image.

Lets say that I was working on area A doing some burning then I moved to area B to do some burning.

As soon as I start to apply the brush strokes to area B it also affects area A.

The brush size is correct for the area I am working on.

It's almost as though the computer is not fast ennough to catch up.
I seem to have enough processing power, Win 7 8GB Ram.

I am wondering if the swap file has anything to do with it but not sure.

db.jpg
 
I'v just tried on my PC and it works fine, Windows 7 64Bit, 4GB Ram (and 4GB more to fit when I get round to it) but my new graphics card has 2GB of ram on it, so it could be your card redraw a tad slow.;)

Link to card http://www.ebuyer.com/product/249220
 
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Ian - I have tried to replicate your problem with your image but can't...8GB Windows 7 my graphics card is a 1GB NVIDIA GTX460 etc
I can burn A and when I come to burn B it has no effect on A again.
Can only suggest you try altering some of your settings in the Menu Bar to the Dodge and Burn Tool.
Dave
 
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nikonuser said:
Ian - I have tried to replicate your problem with your image but can't...8GB Windows 7 my graphics card is a 1GB NVIDIA GTX460 etc
I can burn A and when I come to burn B it has no effect on A again.
Can only suggest you try altering some of your settings in the Menu Bar to the Dodge and Burn Tool.
Dave
Click to expand...

Any suggestions on what settings to try and change. In the meantime I will see what spec my Graphics card is
 
I find it very hard to believe that this is a hardware issue - it sounds very much like software going wrong to me.

However it may be graphics related - do you have a version of Photoshop which makes use of Graphics acceleration? Try turning it off, see if that jolts it into behaving...
 
It does - if it's like CS4 then the option should be under Edit > Preferences > Performance > Untick 'OpenGL Drawing' to disable it.

Then restart photoshop to see if anything has changed. If not, go back and re-enable it, and back to the drawing board lol.
 
I very occasionally get something similar when using the clone brush in CS2. After I have cloned in one area, I move to another area, pick a new source area then start cloning again, and I get effects beyond the bounds of the clone brush. As soon as I spot this happening I backtrack a few steps and try again. I don't recall the problem ever continuing past that point.

I have not registered whether the "external" cloning effects are positioned where I had previously cloned, although now you mention it, that could be the case.

I am running CS2 under XP SP3 on a dual processor Intel box with 2GB RAM, and a GeForce GT240 with 1GB RAM. CS2 occasionally slows up, which only seems to happen after I have had four or five images loaded simultaneously, and I have to close CS2 down and reopen it to get it running nicely again. Quite possibly a memory issue in my case I should think. Don't know how relevant any of this might or might not be to your issue.
 
Try resetting all your options to the defaults. Hold Ctrl Alt and shift down all at the same time when you start up Photoshop.
 
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