What is “Auto” about the Auto Mask Tool? Not very much apart from a slight snap function, which also doesn’t always work very reliably.
I would like to have the option of clicking on the desired motif and the AI in the “Auto Mask Tool” automatically draws a kind of rubber band around it, which you can then correct a little.
For birds and other subjects with many colors, other mask creation options in the Local Adjustments are not very effective. The most accurate and quickest way is to use the auto mask.
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Unfortunately, “Auto Mask” generally does not work in a reasonable way at all. 
Also see Shortcut to observe the actual auto-mask?
(and the links provided in that thread).
Being able to automatically recognize a clicked “object” is even harder to implement. While it might be nice to have such a feature sometimes in the future, IMHO it’s far more urgent to finally fix “Auto Mask” at all.
Meanwhile it’s four years (!) since the fix has been promised to come “soon”.
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Thank you for the links. I think I have not seen these discussions before. Maybe some of these points already have been fixed. I like the automask tool and it’s one of my most used tools, especially because I’m photographing a lot of animals like birds with many different colors in it’s surface. So all other masks are not as useful.
But if you have 800+ images to work with and each of them needs a mask you feel the pain in your arm, shoulder and neck after ending your work. So a better way of masking the wanted objects would be helpful.
But I’m going to try out some of the tips and tricks in the above links. Maybe it helps a little.
I hope that more than three people will vote for my wish.
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I recently viewed some videos by Andy Hutchinson in you tube on using DXO masking and it has completely changed the way I think about DXO masking. Because my club uses LR and PS I went back to using it but i9f I have a difficult photo will do it in PL8 and Affinity Photo and the reason is if you use the DXO masking correctly you actually get a better mask. LR is rarely completely correct and is sometimes difficult to fix PS is more accurate if you use the cloud version but is amore difficult software to use. Auto mask used correctly is very accurate and does not cause fringing. I do mostly birds and landscape. Watch Andy’s videos. I thought a was pretty good at DXO masking but his tips make it much easier.
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The biggest bug with auto mask is it shows the area painted and not the actual mask used - useless and has been like that as long as I can remember! This desperately needs to be fixed!
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Yes. I would love the ability to not just see the mask I painted, but also the “auto” mask that PL created from it.
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