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Retouching a session of headshots is quick and easy with the AI masking tools in Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop.

AI masking: Fast headshot retouching

Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom make skin smoothing and other retouching enhancements fast, thanks to AI. Masking people in Camera Raw and Lightroom This works in Bridge or Lightroom Classic. Select a set of headshots and follow the following steps. Step one: Open the RAW files selected in Bridge by

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Master landscape masking in Lightroom

Here with a quick Lightroom Classic tip for beginner and hobbyist photographers—have you seen the new Landscape Masking feature? In this video, I’ll walk you through how the latest Lightroom update now automatically separates your photo into three (or more) editable masks—sky, architecture, and vegetation—giving you greater control and flexibility

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Lightroom Masking

Taking a look at the new Lightroom updates: Masking

Adobe Lightroom Classic recently had a software update (V12.3) offering a few major updates, including AI Denoise, panel additions and of course Masking, which is what I’m going to have a look at now. Develop Panel Interface updates I really like the changes made to the Develop panel interface. I

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Using the Object Selection Tool to select people in Lightroom

If you’re a Lightroom user, you’ve probably come to love the latest updates in masking technology that have been released, (for an overview of these updates, click here). Thanks to AI technology, the ability to select subjects, skies, backgrounds and people is now as simple as clicking a button. However,

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Removing distractions in Lightroom Classic

How to remove distractions in Lightroom Classic

I have two photos that have areas I find quite distracting and I want to remove them or hide them in the images. I thought I would start with Lightroom Classic and then expand into other Software tools. There are some fabulous new tools in Adobe Lightroom Classic and some

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New in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW: Easily select people

Adobe has made it easy to select people in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW. The Masking Panel helps you achieve precise editing, quickly adjusting skin, teeth, eyes and more. How does it do this? Adobe Camera RAW 15 and Lightroom 12 automatically detect all the people in the photo using

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People Select mask tool in Lightroom

Using the Select People mask tool in Lightroom Classic

Among the new additions to the recent Lightroom Classic update is the new Select People tool. In the previous version of Lightroom, you could use Select Subject to mask people in your photos and then edit them separately from your background. The new Select People tool takes it even further.

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Lightroom Mask Updates

Quick overview of Lightroom’s updated masking tools

Adobe just announced updates to a variety of products, including Lightroom. One of which I am pretty excited about is the updates to the masking tools. I took a look around the updated Masking tools area, with Select People, Objects and one-click Select Background. So let’s have a little look

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