Now, you’ve probably also used the healing brush in any other version before CC2015 since the inception of the healing brush. Okay, so hopefully you’ve used, seen, or understood the first one. If you like the way the old healing brush works but want it faster, this would be a good solution. The “Photoshop CC 2015 real-time algorithm with no real-time user interface feedback.” Say what? What’s this jibberish? Healing Brush #2: “LegacyHealingBrush161 2” But the positive side is that the engine is instant.

It has a steeper learning curve if you have bad habits of not selecting an entire area properly before moving on to the next.

It made more sense this way because the results can be trippy if you are new to it. The main difference is that before this live brush, Photoshop would wait to produce the results until you brushed over an entire area.

So if you had a large blemish, it would start really smudgy and then be clean once the entire area was selected. Even before you told Photoshop what area you wanted to heal completely, it started generating a preview that kept adapting as you kept on brushing. When CC2015 was released, it came with a “live” healing brush, which basically meant that it started healing as you started brushing away your blemish. The first one on our list is the default healing brush that came with Photoshop CC2015 before the most recent update in December 2015. This is the “Photoshop CC 2015 real-time algorithm with real-time user interface feedback”. Healing Brush #1: “LegacyHealingBrush161 0”

Spot healing brush photoshop