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 AI masking. From there, you simply select the person in the image.
How easy is it really?
Really easy. The example I show uses Adobe Camera RAW while in Photoshop. However, it looks and works in the same way in Lightroom.
Open the photo you want to edit in Photoshop. From the top menu, go to Filter > Camera RAW Filter. Click on the Masking Icon. I’ve circled this in red.
You will see several masks. Underneath the People Mask section, you will see some activity. Adobe will take a few seconds to detect people. After that, you can see round circles with the people’s faces. This is how you will select each person.
You can then create specific masks that will be your adjustment areas. You can create masks for the whole person, skin, teeth, eyes and more.
After that, you can begin adjusting the sliders to that selection.
And remember, this works precisely the same way in Lightroom.
Automatically select people, objects and background
I’ve just scratched the surface here. As you can see, there are masks for not only people, but subjects, objects, sky and background. In either Lightroom or Adobe Camera RAW, Adobe makes it easy to make these selections. This is an outstanding and welcome feature. Adobe seems to have doubled down on creating quick and useful selections, historically one of the more tedious tasks to perform when editing images.
About Exceptional Children’s Foundation
I photographed this gala fundraiser for Exceptional Children’s Foundation. They have been providing the highest quality services for children and adults who are challenged with developmental, learning and emotional barriers since 1946. Find out more about ECF here.
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