Auto Masking & Subject Detection

[Egregius ([Greg] (Micro 4/3 + Win11))]

I agree with everything you said. There are some open feature requests for better auto-masking that you can vote for and add comments to:

Auto Mask: More "auto" please, such as automatically recognizing the clicked motif and marking it

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…

Local adjustment: Automatic mask tool: display of effective mask

When using the auto mask tool, the effective mask is the resulting mask after automatic edge-detection. It would be useful to display the effective mask. Think of the auto mask as a “control area” rather than a “control point”. To display the effective mask, use the same shortcut key as for displaying the effective mask for control points (M key in Windows).

…duplicated here, but with more votes:

Automask - show actual mask rather than what is painted

When using the Automask you always see what is painted as a mask but I would like to see the actual mask that is used. This would make it much easier to see what is masked and for making fine adjustment.