[Gimp-developer] Feature request for a "spot healing brush"

[Joe Eagar]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:37 -0500, Daniel Falk wrote:
>   
>> Photoshop has a tool that works like the healing brush except that it
>> doesn't require a source region to be specified before using the tool.
>> When there are a lot of quick touch-ups to do, this is very convenient.
>>
>> Photoshop somehow guesses what it should use as source material and is
>> often accurate.  When it's not accurate, users can undo it, and then
>> fall back on the healing brush and manually specify that information.
>>     
>
> Since we don't know how this works in detail, there is not much point in
> suggesting that we add such a feature.
>   
Could you explain the reasoning behind this?  Such feature requests are 
always a good thing, and listening to them is a sign of a user-centric 
development team.  By "listening" to them I don't mean *implementing* 
them, but a steady stream of such ideas can be beneficial.

Though I suppose suggesting it on IRC might be more appropriate then on 
the list.  Is that what you meant?

Joe