Antonio Manaytay Tech 10.18.2022 19:Oct PM EDT

Adobe Lightroom is Getting New AI Features: Here's What You Have to Know

Lightroom suite is getting a facelift with new AI features to speed up image editing, which Adobe announced it would roll out this week.

The company said new features would showcase AI-powered masking, and enhanced Adaptive Presets.

Here's what you have to know about the new features coming to Lightroom:

The new features of Adobe's AI masking will include new tools: Select Objects, Select People, and One-Click Select Background. Adobe expects the new tools will remove unwanted elements from the photos and improve masking workflows.

Select People This feature is capable of detecting and creating high-resolution layer masks even on hard-to-edit parts of the body. With one click, you can increase your editing speed on the skin, face, eyes, lips, teeth, and hair to meticulously create masks.

Adobe introduced Select Sky, and Select Subject to Lightroom in October 2021. Photoshop also had a similar Select Subject function for a time.

Select Objects Using Brush Select tool, this new Lightroom feature will also detect and mask objects. Adobe said the AI detects the fine edges of the selection as fine as eyelashes and stray hair to create a mask.
One-Click Select Background With just one click, you can select a background to remove the need to invert a mask of the subject to change the background. Powered by AI, it will allow you to change the background of the image in one click.

The company said these updates will be available for Lightroom and Lightroom Classic for Windows and Mac, and Adobe Camera RAW.

Adaptive Presets And More

Lightroom and Lightroom Classic for Windows and Mac, iOS, and iPadOS will sport a new feature known as Adaptive Presets. These presets will be useful to enhance the whole image or specific areas only the way a mobile beauty filter works.

You can make fixed adjustments on specific parts or areas of the body as easily as one click with the presets.

Users of Mobile Lightroom will be blessed with AI-powered masking for Subject and Sky with the Adaptive Lightroom Mobile Presets. Android devices will also get the same support for AI masking.

Adobe announced that Photoshop would have a Content-Aware Remove feature. A similar feature will also be released to various Lightroom apps. It will enable the users to remove or replace objects easily without masking them manually.

These changes across the suite also include some minor updates to each version of Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom for Windows, and Mac.

Adobe Camera RAW, HDR Support

Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) has already added to its asset the power to adjust curves for local selections. It also acquired the ability to mask and refine adjustments right there in the ACR.

The company looks forward to these adjustments in ACR will be available to Lightroom in the future.

Still on a Tech Preview in ACR, the company will be releasing the HDR support in beta for those who are working on HDR displays.

Lightroom customers can look forward to these new updates towards the end of the week, Adobe said.