Get masks/Selections from Camera Raw

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Hi, I have an idea followed by a question. When I create automatic masks - (people recognition - skin, mouth, eye, clothes, etc.) at ACR in RAW file, is it possible to open them (import) into Photoshop together with a picture? It would be nice to keep them. I know that I can keep them while importing a smart object into Photoshop for later edits. I feel I can edit and combine them more easily directly in Photoshop.

I tracked down the "Ideas" section (never used it before) to submit this very request. I see this has been here for a while, but I will upvote to keep this rolling. I watched a seminar where the instructor demonstrated how to get a better mask by using the ACR filter, but then I wondered how to get that mask/selection back into Photoshop... except you can't. Yes, I tracked down a couple of examples where you can drastically alter the colour/contrast/exposure of your selection in ACR, then use that to re-select in Photoshop. Not always effective.

So, yes, being able to transfer a mask/selection from the ACR filter back into Photoshop would be super.

Or... just add the same masking tools directly into Photoshop. Surely the underlying code is there, it just needs to be incorporated.

Hi there, it's been long time that i think about an improvement to import masks created/generated in LR and CR as mask/layer mask also in PS.  They could be very useful for post-processing workflow.

What do you think about that ?

Cheers!

up!

I completely agree we need this ability to export selections from ACR (or Lightroom) to Photoshop. 

Hi,

in the meantime I have found a good scenario where this would be very useful.

See how the guy in this video fiddles around with tricks to get the camera raw mask in his photoshop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV_ozGVzP-A

Kind regards,

Stephan

Awesome! Thanks for sharing @Igor_Bul 

The manual solution:

https://player.vimeo.com/progressive_redirect/playback/861211684/rendition/1080p/file.mp4?loc=extern...

So far, I have only found a manual way to solve this problem.
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.
You can make adaptive presets in Camera RAW - and you don't have to twist the curves every time - just choose the one you need.
Not ideal, but now it's only way