Healing Brush
A retouching tool that copies texture from a source area while blending its tone and colour into the destination.
Measured in
px (brush size)
In depth
Healing separates texture from tone: it takes the grain and structure from the source but matches the brightness and colour of the surroundings, so a repair blends into a gradient invisibly. Its weakness is near hard edges, where the blending algorithm pulls in adjacent tones and produces a smear.
Examples in practice
Healing a blemish on a cheek borrows skin texture from nearby while matching the exact shading at that spot.