AI Masking in Camera Raw Is Changing How I Build My Composites

Every composite I’ve ever built starts with the same problem: getting the light to behave. Not the light I’ll paint in later, but the light already baked into the source photographs. If a background is too evenly lit, the subject floats. If the ground has no weight, the whole scene reads as fake within seconds. I’ve spent entire afternoons hunting down that imbalance with manual selections, luminosity masks, and adjustment layers stacked six deep.