Clone stamp ignoring the opacity setting?

[Nocturnal]

Hi,

I had to clone stamp away a hot pixel artifact but I'm having a hard time making the tool work properly. It seems it always applies a low opacity stamp rather than the fully opaque one I selected. The images I'll attach show the original image and one with a single stamp applied. Even after stamping 20 times I can still see the outline of the artifact.

Any insights (pun intended) anyone?

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Sander,

I cannot reproduce this problem; CloneStamp works fine with all images I've tested, and brush opacity is honored in all cases.

Could you upload the image, or a crop of it where the problem persists?

Thanks!

[Nocturnal]

Hi Juan,

I can not reproduce it. I suspect I had a mask enabled but not visible.

[Juan Conejero]

That fully explains what you were experiencing. By the way, as you have discovered, CloneStamp automatically filters itself through the active image mask, if there is one. You can also set a mask during an active CloneStamp session. When you change the mask of the target image in any way, CloneStamp recalculates all cloner actions to match the final result.