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Masking Person and retouch background

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phrank

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Hi, I’m wondering a bit about the new masking functions. It's great to let the AI do the seleting and masking magic, but I wonder how to retouch a masked background. So far I couldn't find a tutorial, for my needs. I can blur and do colour edits to the background, but not retouch it.

In my case I have a masked person in the foreground staying in front of a framed picture at a white background.

How to work in the background only and stamp, or content aware fill it and get rid off this "framed picture" in the background without unselect this mask? If i switch to the stamp or content aware tool, I get off the masked area…
 

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Why use Masking at all? Just use the clone option?

Failing that, in Ps, it's an easy enough task.
 
Why use Masking at all? Just use the clone option?

Failing that, in Ps, it's an easy enough task.
Hi Paul, thanks for your reply, but I've tried and it doesn't worked so well.
That's why i wonder if it’s not possible to clone something from the background while some parts are masked.
 
I understand. Personally, I'd open in Ps, use Select Subject (it uses the same AI as LrC) and save as a new layer. Then you can easily clone on the original layer without the Subject being affected (assume this is what you're aiming for)
 
I understand. Personally, I'd open in Ps, use Select Subject (it uses the same AI as LrC) and save as a new layer. Then you can easily clone on the original layer without the Subject being affected (assume this is what you're aiming for)
Hi, yes, like you have said it's easy in Ps, but I wish it's also easy in Lr without saving the image in a new format. I like to stay in the nodestructive Lr workflow. Seems like they haven't included it, otherwise you don't need to use Ps anymore.
 
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