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Participating Frequently
Oct 27, 2021 8:47 PM UTC
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P:(Masking) Add auto update recompute to subject /sky masking after copy/paste

Love the auto subject detection in the new lightroom classic update.

 

Idea: add an auto recompute feature to the subject masking when working with multiple images.

 

Observation: I'm a wedding photographer. When working with multiple images and auto sync is turned on, all of my edits to one image are synced across all selected images. When working with the auto mask subject selection, LRC basically creates a mask "preset" for the visible image but won't apply that "preset" to all other images until you manually select the  "recompute subject" button on the mask pannel. 

 

Why not have LRC do this automatically across all selected images? Seems like a nice improvement.

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Participant
Feb 1, 2022 4:50 PM UTC

We just completed a shoot of 900 images for an apparel company to use. I'm blowing out white backgrounds, selecting the subject, and bringing the exposure back down to normal. Being able to select an option to "Auto Update Mask" or "Auto Recompute AI Mask" would be game changing right now. I'd happily let Adobe run this process in the background while I answer emails instead of having to click a button hundreds of times. 

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johnrellis
Legend
Jan 24, 2022 11:34 PM UTC

"Why not have the ability to "rasterize" or make the mask a non compute mask? So on images where the sky doesn't change (like a long timelapse) you can easily sync the sky mask from the first image to the others - no additional computing is necessary."

 

While waiting for Adobe to implement this, you could use the Copy Settings plugin to do it.

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Participant
Jan 24, 2022 10:32 PM UTC

Why not have the ability to "rasterize" or make the mask a non compute mask? So on images where the sky doesn't change (like a long timelapse) you can easily sync the sky mask from the first image to the others - no additional computing is necessary. 

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Participant
Jan 23, 2022 2:40 PM UTC

Any amount of time that it will take to recompute the masks is easily half of what it takes to manually go to each photo and do it.  If that is a serious concern, make it an option in preferences or a seperate check mark when copying settings.

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angellomiami
Participant
Jan 18, 2022 7:28 PM UTC

100 %%%%%%

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angellomiami
Participant
Jan 18, 2022 7:27 PM UTC

It really doesn´t matter if it takes 30 min or an hour, We can play with that and do dome other stuff in the meantime. But definetelly is something I am hoping you guys implement. 

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Participant
Jan 16, 2022 6:49 PM UTC

I'm doing astrophotography; one photo can consist of 300+ images. It's annoying to compute each photo. 

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alexb30229931
Participant
Jan 8, 2022 3:01 PM UTC

Hello, just adding my +2c that after a little learning curve yes these AI masking options are a game changer and I love them.

 

Definitely agree with OP though. Could there be multiple levels of this? Option to set autocompute as a default / option to enable in copy/paste / a shortcut key?

 

Even just a shortcut key would help speed up my workflow immensely!

 

Thanks 🙂

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Participating Frequently
Jan 7, 2022 7:19 PM UTC

Status set to planned. Can hardly contain self. Wondering if maybe they can bang this out over the weekend so this next 4000 photos isn't sich a slog.

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Participant
Jan 7, 2022 6:38 PM UTC

I appreciate you thinking of the processing needs of this. Please post a warning(skipable for the future) that warns of this. I have no issue with ANY amount of time it takes to accomplish this task as it can be run while I do something else such as make lunch or sleep(depending on the time necessary). The difference is that I do not need to do the repetiive task of asking for one mask(and the inverse) to be saved for each photo. The new features are so incredibly useful that I use them on almost all my photos, so just give me the option to have that created on import, or applied to a batch. If I have an issue with a large batch running too slowly, I can always select a smaller selection to be computed at this time, but the time is saved on repetive tasks.

 

I only see 8 seconds or so for one mask to be applied, so 4 photos a minute on a fairly old computer. It does max my cpu, but it saves soooooooo much time vs manually masking, I will happily select 20 photos and go make myself an espresso.

 

Thank you for the new features, and thank you for listening to the community!

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