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August 13, 2025

P: Gen Remove now changes elements outside the painted mask

  • August 13, 2025
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The update to the Generative Remove AI model in Lightroom Classic 14.5 has ruined it, as it now changes elements outside the painted mask, making it more or less unusable in many situations.

Pinned Reply By Anshul_Saini

Hi Everyone,

 

Thank you all for your patience. Would you all mind updating to the latest:

• Lightroom Classic 15.2.1

• Camera Raw 18.2.3
 

Conduct a subsequent test to verify if the Generative Remove feature continues to influence pixels outside the painted mask. If this issue persists, kindly share the original image, the XMP file, a screen recording of the workflow, and Lr system info from the Help menu so I may forward all pertinent details to the product team for further investigation.
 

Best regards,

Anshul Saini

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johnrellis
Legend
August 13, 2025

Please attach here a full-resolution JPEG of the original, unedited image, and also include a screenshot showing the Remove selection you've made (in red).   A sample image is much more likely to influence Adobe, and it will help others learn how to use the new tool.

Participating Frequently
August 13, 2025

Here are the original unedited JPG and a screenshot showing the remove selection. Before 14.5, it was possible to define which area of the photo was allowed to be changed and which should be excluded by Generative Remove AI by accurately defining the selection.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 13, 2025

I'm not sure I understand your problem, but I get the impression that you used a brush set to 'Auto Masking' before, and this time 'Auto Masking' was turned off. Or you used Object detection (with the brush option) before and now you used the normal brush (without 'Auto Masking').

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participating Frequently
August 13, 2025

I reverted back to Lightroom Classic 14.3.1, and now it's working again. It's so sad to see Adobe ruin a feature that was working so well.

Participating Frequently
August 13, 2025

I've been noticing the same thing that Thomas reported since I updated to 14.5 this morning, so I put together the attached three screenshots to show what's happening.

 

In this example, I've zoomed to 400% because it's easier to see the problem at higher zoom levels. I used the Remove tool with "Use generative AI" checked and "Detect objects" unchecked.

 

Image 1 shows the spot I'm going to remove, in the center of the screen. Note the grain around the spot I'll be targeting.

 

Image 2 shows the selection I made, a simple circular selection.

 

Image 3 shows how it looks after I hit "Remove" where Lightroom has replaced pixels well outside the selection. Compare the grain around the selection to the grain in Image 1 or Image 2 and you should see what I mean. While Remove often smooths out grain within its selection, I've never seen it do this to parts of the image adjacent to the selection. And depending on what I try to remove, I've seen Lightroom 14.5 add textures or colors around my selections, distorting parts of the image I'm not even trying to change. The previous versions didn't do this; any changes Remove did occured only within the selections.