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Jlevineah
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June 20, 2024
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P: Feather Masks - ability to universally feather a mask selection in LR like photoshop.

  • June 20, 2024
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Feather Masks - ability to universally feather a mask selection in LR like photoshop. With a feather slider. The AI selctions are great but often need to be feathered this would speed up workflow greatly.

 

15 replies

Known Participant
August 4, 2026

Great feature Rikk! Thanks for notifying us! 

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
August 4, 2026

Greetings all,  
 
A new update for the Adobe Photography products has been released.  The August release (x.5) contains an update regarding this issue.  

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by pressing  [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ]. 

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.
 
The feature is now available in Camera Raw, Lightroom for desktop, and Lightroom Classic. 

Thank you for being so patient.  

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
August 4, 2026
Updated idea statusIn DevelopmentReleased
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Participant
July 21, 2026

Will be great that culling will include more subjects than people.

Could it also include birds and other animals, wildlife pictures to check the accuracy of the focus on the subject?

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
May 25, 2026
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
May 24, 2026

The May release of Camera Raw 18.3.1 is now live and contains an update for this feature request. 

For information on how to update the Camera Raw version, you can check: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/apps/manage-apps/creative-cloud-apps/update-creative-cloud-apps-manually.html

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
May 24, 2026
Updated idea statusOpen for VotingIn Development
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Joost7412
Participant
May 13, 2026

I agree also, this will help with speeding up the workflow and gives more flexibility.

pedzsan
Inspiring
May 12, 2026

It appears to me that many. times, when I do “Subject”, the mask is already feathered.  The problem is that I have no control over it and there is no way to alter it.

 

PS has a lot of features with masking (selection) that would be great to have.  The ability to expand or contract a mask by N pixels would be nice.

Participant
February 6, 2026

I think this would be extremely useful. It would greatly improve the usefulness of the AI masks.