P: Gen Remove now changes elements outside the painted mask

@Moritz Weiss: "This might be a bug but how can I fix it?"

Adobe changed the underlying Firefly Remove in the August release of the Lightroom ecosystem (LR Classic 14.5).  An intentional change was to make it unnecessary to select the shadows and reflections cast by the object being removed -- something that tripped up lots of people who didn't take the 10 minutes to learn how to use the tool.

But it seems that an unintentional side effect was to generate replacements that exceeded the selected boundaries much more than the previous version.  It's not noticeable on many (most?) removes, but as you can see in this thread, there are a fair number of complaints about it.

Adobe as marked this as a "bug" with Status: Investigating, which is good.

Unfortunately, no one has posted reliable a reliable workaround other than rolling back to LR 14.4.  If you roll back to LR 14.4, there's no guarantee that LR 15 (likely due in October) will fix the problem.

@krishna.singh 

I will send a link to the examples in a PM. Please note I have already sent them to Anshul_Saini, as he also requested them in Rikks absence.

@Noel Orridge 

Sorry, I don’t mean to be rude, but based on your reply to @angela_1815, it seems you may have misunderstood what this thread is about.

The issue is that since Lightroom 14.5.x, the Remove Tool has changed behavior: it often modifies areas outside the selected/marked area. This makes the tool unusable in many situations, because it alters parts of the image that were never intended to be affected. It’s not something that can be resolved by following your well-meant advice.

Hello everybody, starting last week, I've been encountering countless issues with the generative AI feature on Lightroom Mobile. Everytime I select certain objects to remove (masking manually), the AI generates outside of my mask. 

That makes it very hard for me as an automotive photographer because removing people behind cars now also changed parts of the car which is unfavourable.

This might be a bug but how can I fix it?

Hi @Thomas Steen Petersen 

Rikk is on PTO and will be back by 8/31. Meanwhile, can you share the link to me in a PM?

Thanks for your support.

The new remove tool is simply unusable, it edits outside of the selected area and creates awful low quality results, artifacts, and weird mosaic pattern.

Photoshop is just as bad

@Rikk Flohr: Photography 
I sent you some examples in a PM as requested. Could you please confirm that you have received them?

It is frustrating and embarrassing when the "cleanup" feature on my iPhone works better than the Gen AI removal tool. 

I sent you some examples in a PM as requested. Please confirm that you have received them.

I'm still having issues! The AI feature is basically unusable now unfortunately.