P: Lasso Tool

I absolutely love the masking features in Lightroom but I think they would benefit from a lasso/pen tool type selection option. There are times when I am trying to mask a very specific part of am image but the brush tool takes too long & struggles to make sharp corners. A marquee selection tool with featherable edges could be great for the remove feature as well!

Just a thought I had to share. Thank you for your consideration. 🙏

Feature request: For fine art architecture in black and white, it would be beneficial to have rectangular masks and marquees equipped with multiple edit points, allowing for the application of multidirectional linear gradients within them.

This feature would enable the use of single masks on rectangular structures with straight lines, and with multiple edit points, the rectangular marquee could be transformed into a polygonal shape. The goal is to create masks with straight edges and apply multidirectional lighting and shadow gradients within them.

Thank you.

When refining masks, I deeply miss a lasso tool. And no, object selection -a solution proposed elsewhere by an Adobe staff member- doesn't usually work. I find it ridiculous to have to brush over and over to fill an already contoured area (BTW, the color overlay is very optimistic in terms of uniformity; once you change to image on white or black, brush strokes become much more evident)

Can we get lasso selection tools in Lightroom for precise masking? Or at the very least, create masks in photoshop and it can be imported back to Lightroom with the mask for more precise editing.

Hello everyone! Noobie here 🙂 

I love masking tool but many times I've encounter the need of creating a mask of a different shape other than a round mask. Is there a way to create a  mask with a shape other than a circle? Eg. Triangle, rectangle or any polygone really. Do you know if it's in the scope of future features in Lr ? 

Thanks! 

The current set of tools for masking in Adobe Lightroom Classic is getting better with the object detection and the brush tool. However, object detection is hit or miss and the brush tool is well...round. That makes it difficult for selecting things like windows, which are angular.

Can you please add a polygonal lasso and freeform lasso tool to create masks like in Photoshop? That will give us more control AND accuracy. And then being able to feather those lasso selections would be great. Thanks!

A polygonal selection being no different than the radial grad - absolutely! I did agree that this would be a worthwhile addition just as those other kinds of geometrically defined selection are.

While also pointing out: these kinds of masking task are already possible to complete via other, less "mechanistic" means instead - which are not necessarily any more work to execute: and may be more direct, quicker, or merely more enjoyable!

"A geometrically defined polygon, even if with a feathered edge, could be a bit of a blunt tool (aesthetically speaking) by comparison."

I don't agree. It wouldn't be different of the radial tool

When will Lightroom Classic get polygonal masks? It would make life so much easier to select geometric elements like doors, windows, and many other objects. I don't think it is such a hard implementation

@Paul from Montreal Yup!!! It sure would be nice and would make LR masking hugely powerful. Everything else is just a workaround. I hope Adobe is working on this soon.