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Photoshop CC 2018: Healing and Spot Healing Brush Lag
In most recent 2018 update, healing and spot healing brush have become much less responsive, sometimes taking multiple seconds after completion of stroke to affect the image.
Late 2016 Macbook, up to date OS and Software
I've done the regular things like turning off OpenCL and changing other performance options... no change.
GIF framerate is sped up 2x

Late 2016 Macbook, up to date OS and Software
I've done the regular things like turning off OpenCL and changing other performance options... no change.
GIF framerate is sped up 2x
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kevin_luc
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cameron_wood_4o9x5munswist
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adam_jerugim
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Could you do us a favor and use Activity Monitor to sample Photoshop while it takes 20 secs for healing to complete? (on your larger image)
To do that, launch Activity Monitor, select the Photoshop process, start your heal in PS, then go back to Activity Monitor and click option-cmd-S. Then please post the sample here. It may give us a clue as to why it is taking so long to complete.
Thanks.
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cristen_gillespie_7908527
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So with my setup, I'm just not seeing this. Oh, should add, I'm using both 8bit and 16 bit images all the time.
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joshua_sim_cdanntr7sh50y
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emerson_utracik
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Now having it on files of ~117mb, 1 layer, 16-bit, RGB.
Does it with wacom tablet, slightly quicker with (Logitech) mouse. Haven't tried a larger file yet.
Win 7, 16GB RAM, letting PS use 12GB. Loads of scratch disk space.
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ahmad_reza_g36uq3dklw3ch
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rob_crawshaw
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I noticed on one instance it was working fine (after a restart of Photoshop) then I switched to the brush and started doing some masking then switched back to the spot healing brush and it was back to lagging.
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stevenewport
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3 years ago
I played around with it to see if there are specific brush settings that are causing this and discovered, on my end, if I turn smoothing off on the brush the problem goes away... have no idea how smoothing on the brush tool could affect the heal tool, but.....
So you have to turn off a new [very nice] feature of 2018 so you can use 2018.
Can any adobe peeps respond to this?
Thanks
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adam_jerugim
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matt_greenslade_7797790
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I updated to Photoshop CC 19.0 today. What has happened to the healing brush? It is so slow, I have the spinning dots and hesitating sample point. The program pauses to catch up, resulting in unintended healing spots. This is taking me right back to Photoshop 5.0 in a box, and the sound of dial up internet.
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