Intelligent Masking

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

This feature request is for intelligent automatic mask creation. And it already exists in multiple forms:

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…

Artificial Intelligence on PhotoLab: what do you expect for?

AI is the new frontier for software applications. In some ways, Smart Lighting, Prime, ClearView, and ViewPoint could be considered as AI algorithms. But what else does the DxO photographers community need? 1. AI mask. Quick AI masks of parts of the picture, by a selection menu: For example: • sky, in order to select every part of the sky, including through vegetation, between roofs and buildings. • faces and skins, to recognize and select all faces and skins • vegetation, to separate all …

https://forum.dxo.com/t/auto-mask-persons-faces/28145?u=egregius

In the meantime, I agree with pointing out that DxO’s mask creation tools are more capable than people sometimes realize.