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March 4, 2023
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P:Ability to copy and paste mask settings from one mask type to another using the mask context menu.

  • March 4, 2023
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Ever since the new masking features became available in ACR and LR my workflow has gradually changed from 10% raw/90% Photoshop to, in most cases, the complete opposite. That said, there is one feature I would love to see added at some point and that is the ability to copy the settings from one particular mask, say a radial mask, that I frequently use as a quick test of what I'm looking to accomplish over a broad area of my compostion to another. A radial gradient has worked very well for this type of situation but I often find myself manually writing the settings down so I can transfer the exact adjustments combination to a brush mask for finer control over my edits. I realize that I can use the add and subtract sub-masks to achieve a similar outcome but I find I like using the brush much of the time as opposed to that approach after manuallt transferring the radial gradient settings. I could use mask presets but that requires extra steps that I think could be eliminated by a copy/paste mask addition. I envision it being another option on the mask context menu, much like the "Duplicate and Invert" addition by selecting "Copy Settings" with another obvious addition being "Paste Settings" for quickly transferring settings from the clipboard to another newly created mask. I could see this being very useful in many situations and believe it would be a rather easy feature to add. Thank you so much for all of the additions and improvements to ACR over the past few years. I hope my idea finds it's way into one of the updates in the near future.

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Participating Frequently
July 22, 2025

I'd like to upvote this feature. I too would like to dial in my mask settings, then be able to paste those settings in batch to multple images that already have their own masks. I could see this as a "Paste to Mask of Matching Name" sort of thing, where I could create spceific subject masks on many images (manually or via 3rd party app), making sure they're named the same, then paste the same adjustment setttings for those masks.