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barrygoyette
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October 20, 2022
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Poorer results in AI selection post update

  • October 20, 2022
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I'm wishing I didn't update right now. The select subject mask appears to have taken about 3 steps backwards in accuracy. It's still haveing trouble with blonde hair on light backgrounds, but now is adding a significant feather to sharply defined black shapes against the same light background. The hope here was that this feature would improve in its accuracy, but we just got a bunch of new functionality while the accuracy seems to have gone in the absolute wrong reaction. I don't know a use for this tool in this program any more. 

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barrygoyetteAuthor
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October 24, 2022

Really trying to teach myself the AI masking in LR, but garsh they've made it difficult. This new update adds all this AI magic, but unfortunately has gone backwards on both accuracy and intuitivity.  Today's mess comes when trying to edit a Select people mask. The AI maks produces a mask with errors. If I go in with the brush tool to correct things (subtracting from the mask with the brush)...I end up with this weird combined mask that doesn't ever function like a single mask. I can't invert it without it switching to the "edit" mask, and the invert button dissapears when you select what should be the "combined mask".  I've been using these products since Photoshop 1.0 and I honestly don't know if the simple edit I'm trying to do to an AI mask is possible in LR, or if the tool is just so counterintuitive as to have been designed on another planet. Can anyone help?

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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October 24, 2022

The mask consists of components. One component is the AI mask, the other components are your brushing and anything else you do to fine tune it. To invert that combined mask, click on the three buttons on the right of the mask itself, not on one of the components.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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barrygoyetteAuthor
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October 24, 2022

Thanks for that, Johan. Working on my laptop, that panel is just a thumbnail of the masks and doesn't show the 3 dot menu...anyway...thanks for opening my eyes to expand that panel. Much appreciated. Now if you can tell me why LR 12 puts a massive feather on select subject/people mask, even when the edge in question is sharp and high contrast (black on off-white). This is a step backward from 11.5 and the current update of ACR. I know its a topic change, but my post from a few days ago about it hasn't had a peep. You'd make my day!

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