P: (Masking) Add controls to modify mask to expand, contract, or feather in AI Selections

Moderators, ​@Rikk Flohr_Photography, please merge with this feature request:

The option to feather exisitng or generated masks using a slider + value option. This should also apply to remove tools and ai selections. This can help smooth out rough transitions often seen in auto masking.

Correct. I did have that kind of issue. 

I just want to add that the "point color" tool could also benefit from a "content insensitive" feather option. The tool is basically creating a color/luminance based mask, so you can run into the same issues when shifting colors/luminance.

Here are some screenshots to illustrate the problem. Please read the pictures captions.

@ralphlouzon

"We need a shortcut to add several objects without clicking again and again"

That's actually a bug that the team so far has not fixed.

In ACR or LrCC users don't need to reselect Objects over and over.

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Hi,

The fake lens blur is cool, but I think Adobe should concentrate on existing and not quite totally satisfaying features... and I mean the masking tools.
1) Feathering the mask (or smoothing the edges, or refining the selection...) is really a mandatory, number of times I found that the edge beetwen a body and the backgroung in a studio shoot is not good, for instance darkening the background bleeds on the edge of the body, even in areas just slightly out of focus (and I tried AI background, AI background + substract person, AI person and inversion and so on...).

In this regard Capture One manage often to be better with its "magic brush".

2) Objects: 
- We need a shortcut to add several objects without clicking again and again... And maybe an option for grouping all the strokes on a single line (I sometimes have to deal with dozens of objects).

- The brush mode for Objects should have a sensitivity setting, it is often too selective to get the whole area (even on a studio plain background) which leads to a number of clicks to add objects.

- or instead the latter suggestion, I would love to see a third option for Objects like the C1/Photoshop magic brush!

Thank you

Yes! After creating and AI mask (and or instance dodge the selection) we could have some issues with the edges. Feathering could be helpful.   

Expanding/contracting an existing Ai selection is not a good solution, it's a simplistic and inelegant one.

A Sky mask that has a poor bottom selection will still be have poor edges/shape when expanded/contracted.

The very detection models need to be changed as that is the real key to achieving better selections.

Also we should be given the option to use full resolution Ai masks that could/would produce better edges like in Photoshop.

While time consuming Ai selections can be improved already with a brush, to the point of perfection actually..but alas LrC has long standing history of issues connected the brush.

 The LrC team should first and foremost fix the brush tool because is the one tool that we already could use efficiently to improve our Ai selections.

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