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Quick Tip: Restoring Tool Behavior
27 February 2023
One of the benefits of Adobe's move to a subscription service is the company's freedom to update the product at will. That means we get not only new features but bug fixes as soon as possible.
In olden times, you had to wait for the next annual release. It was, we were told, not a technical issue but an accounting issue.
But, as if to prove you can have too much of a good thing, the updates are coming fast and furious these days. We almost feel as if we are being exposed to nightly builds of a beta version.
Stuff breaks overnight.
Two recent examples are that our beloved Healing Brush started behaving erratically and our selection rectangle persisted after clicking to reselect so we had a combination selection. Not standard behavior.
We worked around the first issue by resorting to the Rubber Stamp tool, doing what we used to do in olden times. It worked then, it works now. But still.
And we dealt with the second issue by deselecting the original selection before starting a new selection. But still.
So in a rare idle moment we hustled over to the Adobe forums to see if anyone else had complained about this stuff.
Yep. And yep.
There were a few suggestions from well-meaning souls. And a few of those we suspected would not apply to a guy running Ventura on unsupported hardware (where all those Metal calls are reverted to drawing with crayon routines).
Reset Tool. Solution by gener7 on the Adobe forum.
But one idea did work. And it was the preferred solution.
In Spot Healing Brush Tool No Longer Works Correctly, gener7 suggested:
Right click on the tool and select "Reset Tool" I try this before trying a preference reset because I have to restore some items a preference reset takes away. It does reset the brush as well, but if the brush settings were thrown off, it will fix that as well. Tools and Dialog boxes have their own resets and should be the first thing to try.
That worked for both issues, to our delight.