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Mark Metternich wrote:
Taperwing wrote:
One thing I would love to see in LRC is selection modification tools (expand, contract, feather, etc.). I do a lot of masking and selective editing, where these tools would be appreciated. While the AI selection tools, like Sky and Subject, are quite powerful, one can end up with light or dark halos at the selection margins. These effects can be mitigated by zooming in, and using a small, soft brush to adjust, but what a pain in the backside.
Maybe there is better way that I'm missing?
For me ever since they gave us RAW smart objects (raw layers) in Photoshop, you’re able to do all of that, but on a raw layer, keeping it lossless.
For even more adventurous fuhn, you can have multiple raw file smart objects in a single Photoshop file, one per layer.
More useful to most people probably is the fact that by importing raw layers into Photoshop as smart objects you can almost always have a completely non-destructive workflow in ACR/Photoshop. I don’t think that everyone has caught on to this yet.
Also, Adobe has greatly improved the ability of ACR to do things that we used to do in Photoshop, and this has become even more powerful in the latest release. There are all kinds of really powerful ways to create masks in ACR, including ways to invert and combine them. Other new features automate what used to be drudgery — there’s now an automatic dist removal tool, for example. The “landscape” masking tool will identify and separately mask elements of a scene such as mountains, vegetation, sky, water, etc. There’s a mask to select people, and you can then adjust what they look like in the usual ways or even remove any or all of them.
The Adobe AI denoise tool in ACR is close to miraculous. I’ve rescued old files that were grossly underexposed at high ISO, files that were a loss until this tool was added.
Once you have the smart object as a layer in Photoshop, you can easily take it right back into ACR for more adjustments or to remove previous adjustments – just double-click the layer in Photoshop.
Adobe, if you are listening, unless I’ve missed it there is no way easy way to feather the edges of mask selections. For that I still have to travel to Photoshop…
FWIW, I’ve been using this non-destructive ACR/Photoshop workflow for years now. It is extraordinarily powerful, and I’m still surprised by how many people simply don’t know that it exists or how powerful it is.
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