Photoshop n3rds please help

[thepigjockey]

I believe there are 1 or 2 people on here who know the ins and outs of photoshop.

I'm just using Elements 5.0, have been for a few months now. All of a sudden I can't get the damn clone tool to work, i.e. alt-click doesn't do what it's suposed to, and I get this message:

Could not use the clone stamp tool because the area to clone has not been defined (Alt-click to define a source point).

I've googled it, and some people recommend uninstalling and reinstalling (which I've tried), and other people mention that I must have installed some other application which uses alt click (I haven't, as far as I can tell), and the final suggestion was to disable my antivirus (AVG, tried this, no luck).

I use photoshop for VERY basic stuff (I don't even use layers), but this is one of the few tools I use and now it doesn't work I dunno what to do.

This is really boring, and I've been trying to fix it all day :(

Thanks in advance for any ideas...

[thepigjockey]

Panic over. Dunno how I fixed it but it's fine now.

Let's use this thread to post pics of monkeys.

http://lesbianpiratequeen.files.wordp ress.com/2008/06/black-spider-monkey.jpg

[Loz]

I was actually just browsing the forum without logging in. But the prospect of a monkey-thread means I had to.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a180/cheesetits/kevinjamesasamonkey.jpg

[Loz]

on a related note, this video totally blew me away (although that was a bit of an over-reaction)

Turns out we've all been opening Bananas wrong all our lives.

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[soulcheck]

you never tried it that way??