Hi! Can I use adaptive presets Camera RAW 15.5 using masks on objects and people in Photoshop without calling the Camera RAW Interface. (With #F or recording Photoshop action) on different images? Now, when I try to replay last filter or a recorded action, I see the masks of the image that was used when recording are applied.
The main idea is to use the much more powerful Photoshop tools on the masks created by the new ACR AI masks. The simplest example: you have noninteractive action or jsx script that builds mask(s) based on a skintone. This will automate and greatly speed up batch processing of portrait photos. All classic Photoshop technologies (except Liquify) are based on the skintone color ranges or manual masking. Masking faces, eyes, hair, lips for several people with any combinations - Masks from ACR 15 in Layer Masks in Photoshop are a bomb :). It's not a problem to do it for a couple photos: Open the Camera RAW Filter for separate layer, mask what you need in the ACP interface, paint the selection in rarely used color (like chroma key). We’ll get layer for color range selection and creating standard layer mask. I wanna to do it with one click in photoshop. Action, script, it doesn't matter. One click and pupils of the eyes are selected. One click and the teeth are selected!
No, the ACR/Lr teams decided that the masks generated in their apps would not be usable in Ps. No one knows why this was the decision, but that's where we're at.
Hopefully the Ps team can borrow the ACR masking tech so that all users have access to a segmented workflow.
And I've been asking for this long before it was implemented in ACR. As a retoucher, almost all the work i do requires creating masks for almost everything in a scene. If the workflw benefits me, it would benefit everyone... which is why i've been requesting the feature for at least a decade now.
So far, I have only found a manual way to solve this problem. Hope you find it useful. 1. A separate layer for the mask. 2. Call filter Camera RAW. 3. In basic mode, use curves to make the entire image completely black - the horizontal curve is at level 0. 4. In Masks, add the Mask you need. For example Face (All people). Using the curve here, I make the selection white - the horizontal curve at the top. 5. I get white faces on a black background. 6. Apply the filter. 7. Let's build a mask based on the resulting bw image. Adaptive presets in Camera RAW - and you don't have to twist the curves every time - just choose the one you need. Not perfect, but right now it's the only way.
Another better way is to develop a script. (correct call to ACR (parameters cTID('Pset'), cTID('LCs ') and cTID('BigT')). The best way is integration of this tool into Ps by developers. (Dreams.... sweet dreams)
function MyLqfy() { var Param1 = charIDToTypeID("LqFy"); var Param2 = stringIDToTypeID("faceMeshData"); var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor(); desc1.putData(Param2, String.fromCharCode( // Your Mash here, like: 0,0,5,0............. )); executeAction(Param1, desc2, DialogModes.NO); }
Unfortunately my method only works for one face in the photo. In this case it will not work correctly. But this method is also suitable for approximate masking only. You will not be able to emphasize the pupils or lips clearly
@Igor_Bul can you provide a video recording or screenshots of the Camera RAW settings you are using?
Sorry, I don't quite understand. Are we talking about using a liquify filter to detect face(s) elements and select one of them for next manipulation by Ps or it's about new ACR? The remnants of school learning English and Google translator will make me neurosthenic 🙂
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