CLONING TOOL CROSSHAIR OR CIRCLE

705 views16 repliesLast post: 2/21/2004
I have Photoshop Elements 2.0. Sometimes when I use the cloning tool it comes up as a circle instead of a crosshair. Today all I can get is the crosshair. Does anyone know how to change it to the circle. I find it is a lot easier to work with than the crosshair.

Thank You
Dick
#1
Dick

The caps lock will toggle between the cross hair and the circle

Grant
#2
Dick,

If you have the caps lock on then the clone tool comes up as a crosshair so check that first.

If its not on then go to Photoshop Elements>Preferences>Display & Cursors ... you can change the format from there.

Most likely it is your caps lock

Wendy
#3
Grant,

Guess we were typing at the same time ....

Wendy
#4
Wendy

Great minds ... yada ... yada .... yada

Of course Doreen has a different version but we won't go there.

Grant
#5
Wendy and Grant,
thanks for the info. I've been looking for this answer. For me it was the crop tool. There were several suggestions but your tip worked. I checked out the preferences and I will use the default settings until I know my way. I toggled the cap lock and it worked. thanks.
david
#6
Glad to be of help David ...

When it first happened to me I uninstalled and reinstalled elements ... then I found this forum and someone told me how to correct it. It saved me a lot of time :) :)

Wendy

Grant ... I'm still playing in the crimson room and its driving me up the wall!!!!!
#7
Wendy
I was told to reinstall. I was told I needed more memory. I did not reinstall, the old imac has more memory than ole dave and the new mac, well you know...

David
#8
David,

Anytime I get stuck here is the first place I ask ... mind you I pop in every day now as the company is pretty good.

Have you tried the Challenge yet? ... its a good way of learning new things

Wendy
#9
Adobe forum people are nice people!

Can anyone explain how I could have put the word nice in bold when writing this post?

Thanks

Andrew
#10
I haven't read this Andrew, but I think the answer to your question is here:

<http://www.adobeforums.com/Images/help/edithelp.htm>

I found it by following the "quick-edit help" referenced just above this message box. I knew I'd seen it somewhere, but it took me a while to ferret it out.

So study up on all of this and then give us the down and dirty version! :)
#11
Thanks Beth, that is exactly what I wanted!
#12
So where's our down and dirty tutorial, since you've clearly mastered it?
#13
When you get to where you want to be bold press ENTER then a b and a space and type the text. When you're finished with bold do another space and ENTER and just type on. Same with i for italics, c for centre the text, * for a bulleted para to the next blank line, and don't leave a space after the *, ] the same but indent, and > for indent and block-quote in another font: cut-and-paste what you're quoting.

Easy!

Andrew
#14
I never noticed this before. How do some people put the little smiley faces into their messages too?
Whoops, I must try this again,,,,,,,

Jane
#16
Wendy,
I haven't tried the challenge. But I will. Got any answers for Apple discussions? Has anyone tried to access the discussions? It takes sooo loonngg.....
david
#17