Get masks/Selections from Camera Raw

Hi,

in the meantime I have found a good scenario where this would be very useful.

See how the guy in this video fiddles around with tricks to get the camera raw mask in his photoshop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV_ozGVzP-A

Kind regards,

Stephan

Awesome! Thanks for sharing @Igor_Bul 

The manual solution:

https://player.vimeo.com/progressive_redirect/playback/861211684/rendition/1080p/file.mp4?loc=extern...

So far, I have only found a manual way to solve this problem.
1. A separate layer for the mask.
2. Call filter Camera RAW.
3. In Basic mode, use curves to make the entire image completely black - the horizontal curve is at level 0.
4. In Masks, add the Mask you need. For example Face (All people). Using the curve here, I make the selection white - the horizontal curve at the top.
5. I get white faces on a black background.
6. Apply the filter.
7. Let's build a mask based on the resulting bw-image.
You can make adaptive presets in Camera RAW - and you don't have to twist the curves every time - just choose the one you need.
Not ideal, but now it's only way

Omg we really need it!!!!!

This is vital!

This is the #1 thing that I've wanted for so long, and it's so crazy there isn't support for this. Just do it like Liquify adobe. You have the code, you have the resources. Liquify lets you show the backround, Fade it a little so it''s not fully visable. I would rather apply ACR to all my layers instead of a levels, hue/sat, curves/ all other kind of clipping masks. It's time adobe, this should be the workflow. 

Also extract the masks like subject, background, brushes, all that amazing stuff from what you do in Camera Raw and process it back outside of the Smart Object, it's so logical and yet you haven't done it yet. 

Would love if adobe finally allows these masks in camera raw to be further refined. Looks like I might have to buy 3rd party software after all to achieve this.

Hi, @mikekasz if there was a way to do that, I don't think I would have posted a feature request for that very function 😉 ... Please vote on top if you need/want it too.