
Expand the Adaptive: Portrait group to see the included presets and click the Masking icon to open its panel (there should not be any masks yet).


Now, select an unedited photo of a person where you can see their eyes and teeth (along with the rest of their face). As you explore those presets think about what you would do differently, what settings would you change, and what other mask types would you like to create. Now, you may or may not like the look of any of the included presets, but I highly encourage you to click on each one in the Subject group and examine what it masked, how well it masked, and what settings it used to get its look. I clicked on the one called Pop, and I can now see it included settings for Exposure, Texture, and Clarity, which were applied to the mask it created for what it considered the subject (and in this case, I would agree). Then, click the Masking icon to open the Masking tools so you can select the mask it created and examine the settings. When you find a look that you are curious about, click on it to apply it to the photo.


So, select an unedited photo that has some kind of obvious subject (I’m always curious to see if the AI thinks the subject is the same subject I expect), and move your cursor over each preset slowly (as it may need a moment to generate a mask on the fly based on the photo’s subject), and you should see the look of the subject change based on the settings in the respective preset. What all the Adaptive groups of presets have in common is that they are designed to leverage one of the AI-based types of Masking tools to automatically detect either a person, sky, or subject respectively, then create a mask for it, and then apply the included settings to that mask. You should see names like Pop, Warm Pop, Soft, Cool Soft, and so on. Let’s expand the Adaptive: Subject group and see what’s included.
