I just submitted a support ticket to DxO about this.
Some time ago I posted in someone’s thread that I was very annoyed at misaligned brush strokes in a mask. I later had an inkling what the issue might be, but I had moved on so didn’t investigate. Then I hit it again yesterday and confirmed my earlier suspicion.
The situation I have:
Add an AI mask (in this case, the bird).
Add a brush sub-mask to cover areas missed by the AI (the legs).
Make adjustments.
This all works fine. Later, when assessing the overall image, I noticed an indistinct line in the background. I temporarily used a high Clarity slider to reveal it and then rotated the image to level it. It required -1.57º.
After performing the rotation, I noticed the brushed parts of the mask were now misaligned. They were not rotated, even though the AI mask was.
I visually confirmed the rotation is the issue by eyeballing the pale sky “legs” as I double-clicked the rotation slider back to zero. The legs snapped back to the same location.
Yup. Same as previous versions, traditional masking tools do not move with geometry changes, including rotation. Tagged AI masks appear to move as they have to re-find the target area. The user needs to account for this different behavior.
You can drag and reposition each traditional mask (or mask element), but I don’t know a way to rotate or sync rotation of the mask to the image. That would be a convenient feature from time-to-time.
For now, I try to finalize geometry before making local adjustments (or go back and redo).
The new AI masks generally stick to the subject and can also be applied to the next image in the series, whereas manual adjustments might then be misaligned.
