These tools were incredibly well-received, and made us think - how could we bring them into ACR and Lightroom? The existing image processing engine used by ACR and Lightroom wasn’t compatible with the new AI-powered tools - we were going to need to make some really big changes to that image processing engine. The Adobe Research team (our internal skunkworks group that is tasked with dreaming up the impossible and then making it a reality) has been working on creating new approaches to making selections for some time and had recently partnered with the Photoshop team to release some of their AI-powered selection tools, including Select Subject and the Sky Replacement tool. The new masking functionality represents the biggest change to providing control over selectively enhancing photos since the release of Lightroom 2. Lightroom 2, released in 2008, introduced the brush, linear gradient, and radial gradient tools enabling direct selective adjustments in a non-destructive, photography-specific environment. Ansel Adams may have summarized it best in his quote, “Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships”, and his finished prints were realized only through extensive dodging and burning.Įarly versions of Photoshop introduced tools like the dodge and burn tools, as well as selections, masking, layers, and layer masks which enabled photographers to make selective adjustments in the digital darkroom.
With black and white negative-based photography, the most common techniques of dodging and burning enable photographers to lighten (dodge) or darken (burn) specific areas of a photo, with the goal of adjusting the balance of tones to support the intent of the image maker. Selectively adjusting certain areas of a photo differently than other areas is a technique that’s nearly as old as photography itself. The new Masks panel, shown here in Lightroom Classic, with a number of mask groups, each made up of multiple masking tools. These new masking tools will become available on October 26th, and we wanted to share a bit of the process that went into creating these powerful new features ahead of the release. Today, we’re excited to announce a completely redesigned and reimagined way to make selective adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw (also known as ACR, the raw photo processing tool found within Photoshop), Lightroom, and Lightroom Classic that we now collectively refer to as masking.
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