Mask overlay default

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 8, 2023
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Is there a preference or way to turn off "Show Overlay (auto)" for masking? I find the visible mask only helpful when touching up a mask, so manually toggling off the visiblity is an extra step for every single RAW file I edit.

The only thing close to that I see is clikcing the three dots to the right of it and turning the brightness all the way down, but I'm not sure if that is leaving a visible mask area preview with darkness that will mess with my editing.

Thanks.

Windows

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Erik Bloodaxe

Legend

In addition the keyboard shortcut for "Toggle Show Mask" is "Y".

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/camera-raw/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html

SC-AgencyAuthor

Inspiring

Super appreciate that. Still one extra step, but less painful. So definitively there is no preference to hide the mask from the get go? I get why it might be on there by default so people don't assume a mask has not been applied. Thanks.

Erik Bloodaxe

Legend

I think it is true that, if you have Show Mask toggled off, then if you create a mask with no settings applied, you will see the mask until you apply a setting then it will disappear, but if you create a mask with a setting then you will not see it at all until you toggle back on. This might be what you want. Try a few simple experiments with a brush for example to see how this works. Hope this helps.