spot healing brush alignment problem

Using Photoshop CS4 (11.0) on a Mac with 10.5.6. Sometimes the spot healing brush works as expected. However, after working for a while, the alignment seems to be off--I hover the cursor over the spot I want to retouch, but when I click the mouse the area retouched is a bit (1/4" or so) below the spot healing brush cursor. If I quite and restart Pshop the problem goes away. This is with the spot healing brush--not the one where you need to select where to clone from. Is something wrong, or is there a new feature I don't know about that's causing this? I've used the spot healing brush quite a bit with CS3.

If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate hearing them. This is getting frustrating.

I’ve been having similar problems with the Clone Stamp- and Pen Tool at times, especially when editing Smart Objects.
Simply hitting the F-key three times to cycle through the screen modes occasionally/usually helps in my case.

Jim -

What computer, including the video card are you using?

There have been several people reporting this problem, including me. (although I haven't experienced it in the last week or so) As far as I know, Adobe hasn't so far acknowledged the issue and is suggesting the blame lies with the video cards and/or their drivers. This is despite the fact that the reports are coming from a wide variety of machines.

See this thread: <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?7@@.59b73e07/20>

And yes, the easiest way to temporarily rectify the issue is to change screen mode a few times by hitting the F key.

-phil

Yes its a glitch of some sort, some kind of "slip". You just press the F key as many times as you need for it. If this doesn't work sometimes restarting Photoshop sorts it.

PShock:

I'm on a Mac Pro dual-core 2.66. Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT. I'll check out the other thread--I had done a search but missed that one.

Thanks all for the replies.