P: More Photoshop like clone/healing/content aware brushes

Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic do allow you to click and drag to paint, Marc. I always paint with feather at 0 so that there are no issues with overlapping paint strokes, then I adjust feathering afterwards.

yes, we need a content aware retouch brush. i become crazy with the lightroom clone tool which doesn't allow to paint or doesn't manage overlap of strokes,...
i have switched to on1 photoraw to have this tool, several color enhancer/hsl layers, blend modes

marc

You don't need layers to make CA work. Right now, when you use the clone function in LR, it says "take content from spot Y and put it on the spot X that you chose. You can select between clone and heal. What we want is the spot healing brush functionality that says "average the existing information around spot X and outside the selection, and put it on spot X". It would work exactly as it does, except better. The current functionality is broken, especially if your application it at the edge of the image, where the average only comes from two directions, not four.

Content Aware works well when it works well. It often requires additional work to be done to finish the job. Work that involves layers. Layers that don't exist in LR.
Also, CA  modifies the image while LR never changes the original image, so I'd have thought that could make doing what you ask a wee bit iffy. It would also reduce the need to pay for PS which Adobe might consider not in its interest. 
Also (bis), PS saves back into LR as a PSD or TIFF - no layers with JPG. 
Good luck with your request !

Not yet. However, so far both LR versions get the same new features. The cloud version appears to get more because it is missing a lot of Classic features, but I haven't seen it get a new feature that Classic doesn't have or gets. I, too, want this in the Classic version.

Has anyone seen an actual reply from anyone at Adobe on this?  If it ever happens, I bet it will be in the new CC and not Classic CC (where I want it).  

Hey Adobe, you have Content Aware in photoshop. It works great. Its the only tool batch editors like my self who use Lightroom use in Photoshop. I understand the option to take photos from LR into PS with a simple key stroke but it still saves the file as a JPEG back in LR.
PLEASE INCORPORATE CONTENT AWARE BRUSH IN LR. 

I support this request. The current clone/heal tool in LR does not work well, especially at the edges of images, it always leaves a dark or light shade. The current tool also does not pick a good source in about 40% of all cases and often picks a spot that is outside the cropped area, making it impossible to move. 
The simple spot healing brush tool in PS would be an ideal first step, as it simply interpolates nearby pixels to clone out a feature and only requires a brush stroke. A more advanced implementation would also include the regular healing brush (which requires to select a source). Thanks for considering this. 

Yes!

Hi Gary,
Please share your catalog to help us debug this issue. Sent you a PM regarding the same.
Thanks
Satish