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Using Lightroom’s AI Enhanced Masks

Some time ago (around 2022) Adobe updated Lightroom’s mask painting tools.
This update added AI enhanced masks that can quickly detect main subjects, skies, backgrounds, and people.

While editing photos from a drift event at Willow Springs International Raceway, I tried out some of these tools.

Below are examples of that process on one of the photos:

Here is the image with global exposure edits performed.
In the Develop settings click on the Masking icon, or use Shift+W
In this case I want to mask the sky to perform localized exposure edits to only it, so I clicked the “Sky” button.
A new mask is calculated by AI in a matter of moments.
The mask is near perfect, only missing some of the sky through the windshield. In this case it is good enough for me as this is a simple quick edit.
You can always further finesse an AI generated mask by clicking on the mask and adding or subtracting to it with the “Brush” or other tools shown above.
I have been feeling edits with under exposed skies lately, to bring prominence to the subject matter so I pulled down the sky exposure by a stop and a half.

The bottom line:
With these new AI enhanced mask tools in Lightroom, I am able to spend seconds instead of minutes hand painting masks needed to control exposure.

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