P:(Masking)Add controls to modify mask to expand, contract, or feather in AI Selections

[vitalijc83578815]

When I want to soften a bokeh, I can create mask by clicking the "Select Subject" button, invert it and decrease Sharpeness.

But the problem occurs at the edges of subject, the edges of subject are blurred too. The only way is to create another brush mask, paint around the subject and subtract it from original mask.

1. It would be nice if there was a feather control in "Select Subject" that would extend the mask.

2. It would be great if there were an option to automatically recalculate AI mask after synchronization or if mask was copied to a new photo or when applying preset with AI mask.

With this features softening the bokeh could be saved as a preset and it would be very easy to apply it.

[ralphlouzon]

Hi,

The fake lens blur is cool, but I think Adobe should concentrate on existing and not quite totally satisfaying features... and I mean the masking tools.
1) Feathering the mask (or smoothing the edges, or refining the selection...) is really a mandatory, number of times I found that the edge beetwen a body and the backgroung in a studio shoot is not good, for instance darkening the background bleeds on the edge of the body, even in areas just slightly out of focus (and I tried AI background, AI background + substract person, AI person and inversion and so on...).

In this regard Capture One manage often to be better with its "magic brush".

2) Objects: 
- We need a shortcut to add several objects without clicking again and again... And maybe an option for grouping all the strokes on a single line (I sometimes have to deal with dozens of objects).

- The brush mode for Objects should have a sensitivity setting, it is often too selective to get the whole area (even on a studio plain background) which leads to a number of clicks to add objects.

- or instead the latter suggestion, I would love to see a third option for Objects like the C1/Photoshop magic brush!

Thank you

[C.Cella]

@ralphlouzon

"We need a shortcut to add several objects without clicking again and again"

That's actually a bug that the team so far has not fixed.

In ACR or LrCC users don't need to reselect Objects over and over.

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[ralphlouzon]

Here are some screenshots to illustrate the problem. Please read the pictures captions.

01-Original (Leica M11 - ISO 1600 - settings 0)02-Background AI mask03-BG darken04-BG minus person05-BG minus object mask on the skin06-BG selection issues (not so easy to complete)07-BG mask is better on higher contrast areas but not good

[imontv08]

I just want to add that the "point color" tool could also benefit from a "content insensitive" feather option. The tool is basically creating a color/luminance based mask, so you can run into the same issues when shifting colors/luminance.

[ralphlouzon]

Correct. I did have that kind of issue. 

[Jlevineah]

The option to feather exisitng or generated masks using a slider + value option. This should also apply to remove tools and ai selections. This can help smooth out rough transitions often seen in auto masking.