Updated on July 7th, 2026.This post is to collect in-app customer feedback on the Generative Expand feature in Camera Raw. Generative Expand seamlessly blends the edges of your existing image with newly generated content that naturally fits into the background without taking away from your photo’s original subject. Some use cases for Generative Expand are: Expand the canvas for images that were accidentally cropped Fill in the edges of Geometry Edits Adjust the aspect ratio of a photo for social media We'd love to hear what it does well, what it doesn't, and how you'd like it to work. Please also include the following details in your post: Camera Raw version System details Example image(s) if you wish to share Our team continually monitors this thread. Thanks!Thanks!Peter Baust - Dir, Product ManagementPosted by: Rikk Flohr

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Updated on July 7th, 2026.

This post is to collect in-app customer feedback on the Generative Expand feature in Camera Raw.

Generative Expand seamlessly blends the edges of your existing image with newly generated content that naturally fits into the background without taking away from your photo’s original subject. Some use cases for Generative Expand are:

Expand the canvas for images that were accidentally cropped
Fill in the edges of Geometry Edits
Adjust the aspect ratio of a photo for social media

We'd love to hear what it does well, what it doesn't, and how you'd like it to work.

Please also include the following details in your post:

Camera Raw version
System details
Example image(s) if you wish to share

Our team continually monitors this thread. Thanks!

Thanks!

Peter Baust - Dir, Product Management

Posted by: Rikk Flohr

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oxoma69

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Уже второй день не работает!

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Lucia Castles

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Come si fa ad attivare l'espansione generativa?

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zebra7228140

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This has been working great for me until today - now I keep getting a “Something Went Wrong. Please Try Again” Error every time I try using anyof teh generative tools. WHy? WHat changed? Right now its in generative expand crop tool in ACR

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gdusil

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Extremely simple generative expands are not supported in Camera Raw. Even extending a blank canvas doesn't work. I need to convert the CR3 file to a PSD and use the generative expand feature in Photoshop. I don't understand why the AI GE features in Camera Raw aren't using the same AI GE engine as in Photoshop. I would prefer to keep everything saved in an ACR sidecard if possible. This would greatly help with my non-destructive workflow. Especially since I'm dealing with thousands of images from a photoshoot.

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Patrick Baldwin

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ACR 17.5. M3 Mac. When I expand in the crop tool in deep shadows I get smearing streaks which are independent of any exposure adjustments so it's impossible to darken it down so it blocks up and disappears. It just changes it's streaking. There is also a very different noise/grain characteristic to the expanded element which when it happens can make the expand unuseable. I have attached these screenshots to try and show the issues. 01 is the base image with no exposure or crop adjustments. 02 is top right at 100% with huge exposure change to show the underlying noise/grain structure. 03 is top right at 100% without any exposure change. There is no smearing or streaking. 04 is top right at 100% after expand and with expsure lift to show the difference in the noise/gain structure. 05 is top right at 100% showing smearing/streaking which also happens in the non expanded portion of that screenshot. (I appreciate it is hard to see, but it is there and very evident to my eye on a calibrated Eizo). 06 is the resulting expandedimage. Until I can resolve the smearing/streaking in the shadows I cannot use this result unfortunately. The smearing is actually in the entire frame after expansion if one adjusts the levels to darken the entire image down to black. This artefact isn't present if the same exposure adjustment is done pre-expansion.

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jon_8603

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Generative Expand is always a blurry addition, what is the point. You are adding blurriness right next to in focus content. silly, useless.

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rita37232954cj9t

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I fully agree with you… Generative Expand as it is can’t really be used, the filled parts are too blurry. Hope that Adobe can improve it soon, because it would be a great help in some cases!

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Marylina

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cr 2 cr3

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c.ellis14

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Would love to be able to "batch-generative-expand" instead of one image at a time. Similar to being able to batch Denoise.
Thank me later!

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Atl360Pic

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Issue with Gen Expanding Blue Angles jet with blue cloudless sky. The tip of the jet nose is on the edge of frame with a very little blue sky between jet nose and the edge of frame. After Gen Expanding the nose of the jet is blurred. The jet nose did not need expanding and a small area of blue sky was visible between edge of frame and the jet nose before expanding.

On another picture (from the same airshow) gen expanding the blue cloudless sky left visable lines in the sky where the new and oringinal sky met. BTW, I also corrected the lens optics and removed the vignette before Gen Expanding.

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saa_6934

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I am having problem on Win10 ACR Generative Expand - when click "generate" - error message "We've encountered an issue and can't complete your request at this time. Please try again later".

I try to disable firewall, hosts, restarts, nothing helps.. ACR ver 17.4.1 .

What is it?

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