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jaysenm29916112
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November 18, 2022
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P: (Masking) Add "Convert to brush mask" menu option

  • November 18, 2022
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Lightroom's recent 'Select ...' masking additions have been a great help in jump-starting my mask creation process and save me significant time, but they inevitably require human refinement to be production quality. This is to be expected from 2022-era 'AI' and I'm ok with that. I view them as accelerators, rather than replacements. I'm even on board with the stackable mask system. However, there's one missing feature that would reduce masking tedium signficantly for me: the ability to rasterise any mask to a brush mask.

 

Typically each of my 'Select ...' mask layers ends up with an associated 'subtract' brush layer AND an 'add' brush layer. Non-destructive layers are great, but in this case I want to perform a destructive operation (edit the AI mask directly). I'm not proposing that the add/subtract system be changed. I'm simply proposing the addition of a context menu option to convert any non-brush mask types to a brush mask if the user wishes. This would also help plug the gap left now that we can no longer refine gradient masks with the brush like we used to.