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October 27, 2021
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P:(Masking) Add auto update recompute to subject /sky masking after copy/paste

  • October 27, 2021
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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.

139 replies

Participant
November 24, 2021

Is there a way to make HSL adjustments with th eai masks? Or is it just gloval saturation for the moment. is this even something that is possible?

Community Expert
November 24, 2021

Great idea!

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
November 24, 2021

This is the hottest feature request ticket in the Masking world right now and the team is evaluating this. 

 

Given that, on some systems,  AI selection can take many seconds to run, processing them to a large batch of images is a non-trivial use of computer resources and, by extension, time. I would love to hear some discussion from those posting here regarding expectations about behavior, warnings, abort options, when a 100 batch of images is going to take 20-30 minutes of run time. 

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
michaelanthonyphotography
Participating Frequently
November 24, 2021

Lightroom is made for batch editing...

 

Needing to update each mask individually literally adds hours to a wedding or volume workflow....this seems like a really easy fix, and I don't want to wait a year for it, please add it in the next update. 

 

One button, batch recompute masks. 

Participant
November 22, 2021

The issue of having to recompute masks also happens when linking a smart catalog back up with its source folder! Infuriating! This desperately needs an automatic re-compute feature.

Participant
November 20, 2021

I totally agree, you need auto recompute next to each mask when we choose to select copy effect.

Yann971
Participant
November 19, 2021

I was looking for this feature and google send me to this thread. 
It could be: user selects some pictures and then, menu or button => synchronize all computed masks.
These new masks in LR11 are too cool to be let at this point of development. 

Participant
November 17, 2021

The newest update for Camera Raw (11-2021) is a game-changer with the selective masks selecting for Subject or Sky! This feature seems like it would be super-helpful when working with sequenced images for time-lapse. 

Unfortunately, unlike being able to synchronize other local adjustments, every image needs to be manually recomputed in order to apply the selective sky/subject masks. 

Instead of making it necessary for the user to click "recompute" on every image, it would be great if we could let Camera Raw know that all images are the same composition--thus the sky takes up the same space throughout--allowing Raw to synchronize all adjustments without needing to manually recompute.  

Participant
November 17, 2021

Dear community, dear developers,

 

Not many photographers are aware of, but Adobe developer team is for sure knows that fact that Metaverses as Omniverse is coming and it is comming fast.

And I also have to mention an existing industry as product capturing, since it also would recieve great benefits from my below suggestion / request:

 

The new masking feature, specially the AI driven "select subject" could be revolutionary IF:

- we were able to syncronise the masking and edited parameters inside masks as any other edited workflow

AKA:

- the chosing the "mask" menu on the syncronization pop-up tab, LR should compute the same mask command (lets say mask subject / or what ever masking option) on every even image and also sharing the editing parameters inside the mask layer (invert mask + mask editing panel) with every even image.

 

If we are able to click on every even image and recompute the desired mask - probablly it can be handled by in built bach process.

 

And one more request:

Please add black background to edit panel, also please let us export the generated masks with the images (export tab - export masks next to images - mask file format solutions - mask dimension option - chosable sufix as _mask / .mask / (or what ever fufix we want) with the same image name - put it to the image folder / or to separate folder.

 

Thanks in advance! These would be extremely important and welcome options for all 3D content creators (photogrammetry) and product photographers would oopen up a champaign as well I guess.

Participating Frequently
November 16, 2021

Ok folks

I just found out!

When you click on the subject mask, the update button appears in the option pannel...

Its obviously not where I expected it, but...

And credit has to be given.