Lightroom's New Masking System Just Changed How I Think About Compositing Prep

There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from having a nearly perfect stock image for a composite and knowing you’re about to spend forty minutes in Photoshop just getting your subject separated from the background before the real work even begins. I’ve been there more times than I can count, working on movie posters and book covers where the source photography is good but never quite ready to drop into a scene.