Get masks/Selections from Camera Raw

Omg we really need it!!!!!

This is vital!

This is the #1 thing that I've wanted for so long, and it's so crazy there isn't support for this. Just do it like Liquify adobe. You have the code, you have the resources. Liquify lets you show the backround, Fade it a little so it''s not fully visable. I would rather apply ACR to all my layers instead of a levels, hue/sat, curves/ all other kind of clipping masks. It's time adobe, this should be the workflow. 

Also extract the masks like subject, background, brushes, all that amazing stuff from what you do in Camera Raw and process it back outside of the Smart Object, it's so logical and yet you haven't done it yet. 

Would love if adobe finally allows these masks in camera raw to be further refined. Looks like I might have to buy 3rd party software after all to achieve this.

Hi, @mikekasz if there was a way to do that, I don't think I would have posted a feature request for that very function 😉 ... Please vote on top if you need/want it too.

Voted. I wanted to suggest this too, but you're the first 🙂

Automasking should also be added directly to PS Select & Mask window, imho. Let's say I don't have a raw and working with a tiff or jpeg - there's no need to switch here and there, since there's no raw info inside the files. So, it's handy to edit inside PS. Secondly, even when editing raws I may not need any strong exposure manipulations with masks in ACR, I just need the masks/selections themselves for further precise work.

I am editing an image in Photoshop using Camera Raw Filter. When I apply a mask in the filter, it does not save when I go back to Photoshop. There's no way to "apply" or "save" the mask so it stays with the image. If I go back to PS, the mask is gone.

I've been thinking about it, and pondered that they are too useful  and powerful to be dumbed down as selections. We need the same tools and workflow in Photoshop.

Howdy,

first of all thanks to Adobe for bringing us the incredible new masking tools which makes life much easier!

What I miss now is that the masks are only available within camera raw or Lightroom in it's masking module. When I edit a photo in Photoshop as a smart object from Lightroom and double click the little preview I can access all the settings made in LR as usual even the masks are there! Cool so far.

But If I now want to do some advanced things with those masks it would be nice if the masks would be available from the "load selection" dialog as named selections.

Example: I selected some group of peoble from an image and now want to remove it from the background using the cool new "delete and fill" feature, then create a depth mask utilizing the selection and blur the background accordingly.

Thanks in advance,

Stephan