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P:(Masking) Need the ability to choose to which person the mask should apply

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December 1, 2022
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I just spent some time on chat with Adobe support and what I'm suggesting doesn't exist right now, so I'm creating this as a "future feature request" for Lightroom Classic - AI mask features.

USE CASE

I'd like to create essentially a Library of custom AI masks and save them for future 1-click use like you would save custom Brush for use.

EXAMPLE OF A CUSTOM SAVED MASK (1-click use mask where AI selects the person's face and softens skin)

- create a new mask

- select persons

- select face

- use my custom "skin soften -light" brush (already saved for use)

- save all of the above as a custom "face skin soften mask"

- ceavat - since AI does person selection as part of the AI mask, there would need to be a right side panel pop up that shows the people in the photo so you can then select / deselect who you want the custom mask to apply to (ex. select the bride facing the camera, but not the person helping her put shoes on)

You could also create custom saved AI masks for "Body skin soften", "Face & Body skin soften", "Blue skies" , etc. - basically perform all the AI mask selection steps in 1 click.

Further more it would be great if you click "M" for new mask, and then have some sort of dropdown tool (like you for for K with brushes), where you can select the AI mask to be applied.

This would be an editing game changer!

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Meanwhile, oh, if only face recognition were 100x faster (which it definitely can be) and 10x more accurate (likewise) and with a UI that isn't horrible.

If you don't have a catalog with 200,000 photos of mostly 50 models, you may not fully grasp the scope of what I'm talking about.

As a sort of aside, I was entirely creeped out recently when I found that Google Photos face-recognized people in a VIDEO.

Ponder that briefly. *shudder* That is not a feature that I want working by default. Like, in any way, ever.

Ester KAuthor

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@johnrellis this post is in "ideas" already, or should be. That's how I wrote it. 😉

Ester KAuthor

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@johnrellis , correct, I actually have that in there 😉 - a popup on the right where you select from the people which one you want the mask to apply to. Agreed! That'd be needed

Jon Hillenbrand

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You can do all of that in Shapchat. And you can make people look like poodles too.

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JimHess

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You could create presets that only have the mask selected. The mask would be for the purpose desired, and it would apply to any image.

johnrellis

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Unfortunately, creating a preset with a person mask has a big limitation. If you create a preset from a person mask created by selecting a single person, when you apply that preset, it will be applied to all the people in the photo, as if you had selected All People originally.

So @Ester K's idea needs one additional LR feature -- when a preset contains an individual person mask, the ability to choose to which person the mask should apply.

Here's an example of the current behavior. Create a person mask with just Face Skin selected, and make a preset saving that mask:

When you apply that preset, the mask gets converted to All People:

I've looked into whether my Copy Settings plugin could change this behavior, and I couldn't figure out any way.

johnrellis

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Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please move to Ideas.

Ester KAuthor

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NOTE - I'm not talking about saving a brush. I know how to do that.

I'm taking about saving an AI custom created mask that selects people, selects face, applies brush. 😉

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