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Adobe adds AI masking and content-aware healing to Lightroom 2022

When you're editing a photo, it's easy to make unwanted changes. You could choose an object or person and adjust its colors or remove it completely. But if you're serious about your work, then that's not what you want to do.

Luckily for us, Adobe has added some new features that help us easily select the parts of our images we want to keep while eliminating others by applying artificial intelligence (AI).

Masking Improvements

Masking has been a feature in Photoshop since the 1990s, but Adobe's Lightroom has only included basic masking capabilities. With the new version of Lightroom, you can now use your own custom brushes to create masks that are more complex than simple rectangles or circles. You can also select specific areas of your image (such as people or text) and mask out those areas rather than entire objects.

You'll find these tools at all levels of zoom within Lightroom:

• The Detail panel shows you what areas are being masked and how much of each pixel is being masked out by default settings for content-aware healing.

• The Layer panel shows how much healing is happening on each layer;

Content-aware Remove

Content-aware remove is a new feature that lets you easily remove objects from your photos. You can use it on an entire image or selectively edit objects within it, as you would with the content-aware fill tool.

Included in Adobe’s new Lightroom app, Content-Aware Remove can be applied to any file format (including RAW). The easiest way to apply this feature is by clicking anywhere on the photo and pressing Ctrl+Alt+R keys simultaneously.

AI-powered masking and content-aware remove are available on Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera RAW.

Adobe has added AI-powered masking and content-aware healing to Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera RAW. This means that you can now use the same tools in your favorite photo editor as well as on mobile devices.

The new features are available in all versions of Adobe's photo editing software—Lightroom CC (for Creative Cloud subscribers), Lightroom CC Mobile (for Android users), and Photoshop CC for Macs and work with both photos taken by your phone or tablet camera and photos imported from a digital camera via USB cord.

The latest features are all about making it easier to select people or objects to adjust their colors or remove them completely.

Lightroom’s latest features are all about making it easier to select people or objects to adjust their colors or remove them completely.

AI Masking and Content-Aware Healing are two of the key features that Adobe says will improve your photos in Lightroom. Masking is used to select people or objects to adjust their colors, while content-aware healing automatically replaces parts of an image that need fixing with new ones.

Conclusion

Adobe says that this is the first time it's ever made a new feature available to everyone. But if you've been waiting to try out some of these tools, now might be the time.

These latest features are going to make things easier for both photographers and their clients who want a more precise look at what they're getting from Adobe's software. That's good news for everyone!