How do I get the old healing brush with content aware back?

[displaced7]

How do I get the last healing brush back?  I have zero interest in AI - too slow, unreliable, and nothing I need for simple corrections.

[Conrad_C]

If you put the tool into Heal mode, does it work the way you want, like the old tool did? Heal does not use AI, only the Remove mode (the first/left one) has AI options.

[displaced7]

No, the content aware option that was in the previous version.  It worked really well.  This new thing, as far as I can tell, is useless.

The last version had 3 options for healing - content aware (it might have been called something else), the one you have selected, and the stamp option.

[displaced7 · Accepted solution]

I guess it is the 'remove' tool just renamed.  As long as I change to 'Never' for overlay it seems to work like the previous version.

I really can't stand how Adobe forces AI on everything.  I've yet to see a useful application (for me and my businesses).  Someday, but not anytime soon.

[JohanElzenga]

Adobe isn't forcing you to do anything. Just uncheck the Generative Fill option to get the old content-aware brush.

[displaced7]

My comment was in jest.  They aren't "forcing", but they are making it increasingly annoying (having to close floating windows, etc., etc.).  Like I said, someday it'll be great, right now it's of no help (to me and my businesses, again, as I said).  Cheers.

[JohanElzenga]

I find that Generative Fill can do an amazing job, where the old content aware brush often fails miserably with a mushy mass of nothing. It is a great improvement in my opinion, and I don't mind have to check a checkbox to use it and uncheck that box if I want to use the old brush (that I still use for easy stuff like removing a dust spot from the sky).