Spot healing brush leaves ghosts

[Radkoman]

I am running the 2017.1.1 release of Photoshop and have no issues until yesterday afternoon.

I was working with an image that I was editing that I started in Lightroom.  I was removing a sign from a street scene with the spot healing brush. 

After having removed it, there was a short of the sign.  I tried to remove something else from the image and it left a tan colored remnant of what I had attempted to removed.

This morning I tried a different image, and a flag was left with the tan color and a sign was left with the red of the sign that I was attempting to remove as a ghost of the original sign.

I have looked around on the support site and cannot find anything that would seem to be similar to what it is that I am experiencing.  This worked fine up until yesterday afternoon.  I had been using it yesterday morning, so somewhere between a few images, something went a bit out of line.   Closing both applications, a reboot of the system (Mac Sierra 10.12.6) has not resolved anything either.  (Only 1 year in the Mac world, came from Windows platform)

[gener7 · Accepted solution]

Sometimes settings are knocked off, and the best way is to reset the tool by right clicking on its icon in the Option bar and try again.

[Radkoman]

After a few false takes I finally found the reset and that fixed it.

Thanks!

David

[Rosa33357371wmnj]

How do I "reset the tool" on an iPad?

[ilinas64965902]

Resetting the tool didn't work for me. I'm on Windows, current CC.

[Keith23242116exw5]

Most of this thread is 4 or 5 years old. Im running version 11.4.1 of LRC in July 2022 and having the same ghosting issues - but not always. Right clicking on the spot removal tool doesn't give any drop down options. Does anyone have a fix please?

[trentreker]

as keith wrote above, this is STILL happening.  i'm running 2023 programs from adobe and it's happening.  how can i say this without cursing. . . the latest version is a neverending series of inoperable tools, lame popups telling me crap i already know (oops, touched a smart object while set on eyedropper!  forgive me, o' master adobe!), jerky scrolling that'll suddenly lead me OFF the file, and ceaseless workflow disruptions. 

i've got a brand new macbook 14 with m1 pro chip and 16 gigs of memory.  it's like i'm on a five year old windows machine.  so very tired of the incompetence at adobe.