P: Be able to use masking tools to define AI remove areas

Forum|Forum|12 days ago
September 17, 2026
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Let be able to use all masking tools including combination (intersect, invert, add, substract) to define areas to be remove by AI in the remove panel

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

This has been asked before, but might not be such a good idea as it sounds. If you want to remove something, you generally need to select it with a little extra room. The current mask options will often be too tight and may also miss things like shadows and reflections. As a result, AI Remove will then not remove the object, but replace it with a similar object in order to match the shadow or the reflection.

This is illustrated by the current recognition options in the remove tool. Objects and people are selected much more broadly than object and people masks do, for the above mentioned reason.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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M2A2Author

Inspiring

The new capacity of refining and feathering edges will overcome the extra room issue, and clearly if ther are only shadows and reflections to brush out with an add brush, it will be a big time saver.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

No, the new refining and feathering options are still far too little for this purpose. They are meant to enhance the mask edge, not to significantly increase the mask size. Look at the difference between object recognition in the Remove tool and an Object mask. That difference is there for a reason. I agree that it would be nice if the remove tool had more recognition options, but using the current masking tools would not be the answer in my opinion.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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