P: Is there an optimal setting for Select and Mask? I can never get it to work efficiently :-(

[Jerry Syder]

Ever since Select and Mask had been released, I've never managed to get it to work smoothly. Actually, when it was first launched, it probably worked the "best" but it still was a waiting game and was never quick. Is there an optimal setting? The quick selection tool is almost instant. I have a decent system but it struggles in Select and Mask. Please see video for demo of my experience. Also, see comments for system spec. Does anyone actually use it effectively? Or do you still use the "old method"(refine edge). This is excruciatingly painful - over 5 mins and I've still not manage to make a basic cutout

[Jerry Syder]

Same here, it's frustrating as ever. Photoshop isn't even using all my resources so it's NOT a case of my system's abilities. 

[Denyerpro]

intel 9900K, 64Gb RAM, 1070GTX Windows 10 Pro, SSD work drive, SSD scratch disk, SSD system drive. Clean install of Windows and PS out of despair. Latest NVidia creative drivers.

Performance of Select and Mask workspace is unusably slow.  I'm still using Topaz Remask 5  (Not  the AI version) because the photoshop tools are too slow to use.

[Earth Oliver]

i was testing yesterday and found that the old Refine tool is still faster than S&M! For those wanting to use it, hold down Shift and then in menu>Select>Select and Mask.

[J453]

Den, can you give specifics of what is slower?

[Denyerpro]

Brush lags 1-2 seconds behind cursor, after releasing the pen there's a 3-4 seconds delay before the screen updates with the latest, often incorrect, change. It's very frustrating to use, if it wasn't for Topaz I'd be doing a lot more swearing.

The only reason I revisited S&M at all was due to the latest patch promising improvement to the CAF and masking algorithm but the speed sadly writes it off again 😞

Video clip here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/678901730

[Denyerpro]

Above video is a fresh reboot, fresh load of PS with single image. After working on 5-10 images it's significantly slower still.

[primeshooter]

I get this exact issue. 128GB DDR4 3600 RAM, Ryzen 9 3900x, 1070 nividia 8gb, 1TB m2, 2 TB SSD, x9 3.5 drives. My system is state of the art but this is unusable! What the heck is going on?

Also, adobe can you please fix the issue in select and mask were the scroll wheel zoom just randomly stops working. This has been going on since Cs6! Cannot believe I pay for this software.