Mask functionality request

Hi there everyone,
I am new to this forum but have been using rawtherapee for nearly a year now. I am loving the software for handling raw files. However i have a query, often whilst processing my images I use selective editing to mask the subject, however I am often frustrated by the lack of flexibility in only having elipse and rectangle masks.

Is there a way to create an irregular mask, or some sort of brush tool. Even being able to rotate an elpsoid mask would be very handy.

I have tried to find any information about this on rawpedia but to no avail. Any help is appreciated,
cheers, Sam

P.S. An example was when trying to edit milkyway photographs i had to create multiple elipsoid masks to cover the milky way due to the milky way stretching diagonaly across the frame. I could not mask the whole sky as there were areas very similar in hue to the milky way which i did not want to adjust. Thus a rotatable elipsoid mask would be very handy.

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Welcome to the forum, Sam.
The masks you are looking for are not available in RawTherapee, but there are other possibilities to get there:

In Local editing set a spot to the target, choose your tool, and switch on the preview delta E. Based on the tinted masking, move the scope-slider until only that area is coloured you want to apply the changes. Switch off the delta E and continue your edits.

For me, this function is doing this job very well.

hth
marter