Healing Brush Tool availability

Since I am working in Photoshop 6, I do not see a "healing brush" tool on my toolbox. The course I am trying to help my granddaughter with is designed for Photoshop7. Is there any tool in "6" that will have the same function as the healing brush - or is it hiding out somewhere in 6? Thanks Louise

If I'm not mistaken the healing brush was a new addition in PS7. Sadly there really isn't a "tool" that does what the healing brush does.

Prior to the healing brush you had to sample colors from an image and use multiple layers of multiple sampled colors and do some creative blending to do what it does on the fly.

So, without this tool, am I correct in assumming that - at times, at least - I might chose to use the clone tool instead if that produced decent results? I played a bit with the photo from the course ding the selecting, sampling, filling, blending ... over and over ... and can see that it does get decent results .... but is definitely labor intensive. Any other suggestions to "fix" old photos? TIA, Louise

The clone tool will surely be your best friend just try to do your cloning to a new layer. (take your sample point from the original layer but clone ON a new layer)

Fixing old photos can be painfull to say the least but it is a great learning tool in itself. You can check out some of the photo restoration tutorials on http://www.retouchpro.com

Thanks for the link. This particular question was related to an assignment, but my husband likes to do geneology work and has tried to do some photo restorations in the past, so know he will appreciate hearing about this link ... as do I. Thanks for the pointer about taking the sample point from the original layer. I do essentially all editing work on a new layer.