Allow Heal tool to sample color/pattern
Operating System: All
Description of the feature
Heal Tool gets an upgrade which allows it sample plain white/colors and/or patterns for easier soft blending and texture generation*
Use cases
I know Heal tool is the intelligent Clone tool but it is also secretly the soft blending tool on the artistic side of things if the source is fixated onto a white area. It's stronger and better than what the Blur tool can provide and while with my blending brushes I experience color-banding on 8-bit precision, Heal tool just bypasses this and makes perfect blending! It would be very good if it somehow had a "set source" option as well like the clone tool, or really something that allows to "trick it" to sample plain white or maybe patterns (so I could set up a plain white pattern for it to sample maybe?) or both.
*Heal tool is very good for random pattern making for imperfections
Mock-ups
Heal tool with two modes (Healing and Blending) - Healing acts as usual, Blending samples white
Heal tool with an extra checkbox for activating blending mode and samples white
Heal tool with Source option with pattern (and color) selection