Healing tool/brush

Hi    
I have been watching some Adobe tutorials on the healing tool (both Lightroom 5) and on one there is an "feather" option yet on the other tutorial there is no such option available. The feather option looking good.
Please clarify whether the difference for me? Do you have to do something extra to bring it up.
thanks a lot
john

When you select the spot removal tool or press the letter Q there are two choices of clone or heal. Under the brush size slider is a slider to set the amount of feather. If you are using a small feather of say 15 you may need to increase the brush size above 80 in order to see the inner and outer circle when you hover your cursor on the photo. But you can safely reduce to the brush size, to what you want for the job, in the knowledge that the feather will be working. However when using a feather you generally need a larger size brush.

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