Add masking
A fundamental photo-editing operation used to expand or merge selection boundaries within a mask.
Masking Modalities in adobe lightroom
- Add masking: Expands the active selection by combining it with a new area.
- Subtract masking: Removes the newly defined area from the current selection.
- intersect-masking: A precision-focused mode (introduced late 2023) that isolates only the area where two masks overlap, enabling highly controlled Local adjustments.
Source: 2026 04 21 Lightroom Intersect Masking for Precise Local Adjustments
Source Notes
- 2026-04-21: Lightroom · ▶ source
- 2026-04-07: Lightroom Classic Single Click Automated AI Mask Presets for Landscape · ▶ source
- 2026-04-08: Lightroom Dark and Moody Photo Processing for Dramatic Photo Enhanceme · ▶ source
- 2026-04-13: Lightroom Classic v15 AI Powered Enhancements for Creative Control and · ▶ source
- 2026-04-14: Dark Code AI Generated Softwares Comprehension Gap and Untraceable Ris · ▶ source
- 2026-04-18: Adobe Camera Raw 183 Depth Masking Lens Correction Film Presets Overvi · ▶ source
- 2026-04-22: Lightroom Classic · ▶ source
- 2026-04-29: Kim Percy