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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
August 13, 2024
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P: Generative Remove Feedback (Camera Raw)

  • August 13, 2024
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This post applies to Camera Raw.
Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Ecosystem feedback can be found here.
Previous Early Access Feedback can be found here.
 
Generative Remove makes it easier to remove unwanted objects and distractions with a simple gesture, even on complex backgrounds. For more accurate results, be sure to include the object's shadow in your selection and/or expand its size. 
 
Detect Objects uses AI to find the objects underneath a brushed area. The masked areas will now appear larger than the Early Access version of this feature. You can also circle objects for quicker selection now. 
 
We have also updated the spot selection experience to make it easier to manage variations, switch the fill type, refine the selection area, or re-generate as needed. 
 
Batch updating is also now supported for Generative Remove spots. 

As Generative AI analyzes portions of the image that have been cropped out, Camera Raw has the ability to toggle Show Uncropped Image is now available to guide you in your Generative Remove selection. 
 
Try out the latest updates and share your feedback with us here. Please also include the following details in your post: 
  • App version
  • System details
  • Example image(s) if you wish to share

Our team continually monitors this thread to track issues for future improvement. Thanks!
 
Lisa Ngo: Lightroom Product Manager

 

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jose antonioc61448642
Participant
April 19, 2026

O camara raw não está a funcionar correctamente . quando quero usar a ferramenta de remoção o camara raw não responde e bloqueia o photoshop.

Esta ultima actualização não está a fduncionar correctamente no Mac

CDPhotography
Participant
April 19, 2026

After the most recent upgrade on Camera Raw, using the remove tool/Generative remove has been extremely, slowing down my ability to edit - having to reboot my MAC with no improvement.  Even cropping my image seems to have lag.

CDPhotography
Participant
April 19, 2026

Also, when I try to make the same changes to several images using the Masking tool all at once, my MAC freezes and i have to reboot my computer - happens all the time.

Countryman
Participant
April 18, 2026

I have just installed the latest Camera Raw 18.3 on both my Mac Studio & Mac Book Air and find the remove tool virtually unusable. Its slow and does not perform in real time.

marcos65406942
Participant
April 18, 2026

Hi,

I've just installed Camera Raw 18.3 on my MacBook Air M1, macOS 26.4.1 and the tool “Remove” is unusable: extremely slow, looks stuck, then I get the result, after 15-20 secs, without control of what area I’m applying it (no feedback on the screen).

I’ve tried to reboot the Mac twice, no other apps running (except Bridge). Nothing changed.

Thanks

marcos65406942
Participant
April 18, 2026

Update: in general Camera Raw il slow: I opened 5 files together (usually I can open up to 15-18 files without any problems) and when I switch from one to another by clicking on the thumbnail, the main image takes 4-5 seconds to refresh and visualize the new selected file.

I also deleted the CR cache. Nothing has changed.

Thanks

Janm1303
Participant
April 15, 2026

 PHotoshop werkt slecht sinds een Half jaar. Telkens de melding GPU heeft een onherstlebare fout vastgesteld. GPU versie snellign wordt uitgeschakeld

taton27848242cl5u
Participant
April 9, 2026

😀 

aographics_au
Participant
March 9, 2026

Adobe Photoshop (2024) and its Adobe Camera Raw (17.3) has become so clunky with so much “cool-but-useless” features, the software has become almost unusable. Yes, it's my PC's getting old, but what used to be done on CS5 for a fraction of processing power and within seconds on multiple DNG files, for a simple task of removing a spot, now takes minutes because it consumes so much RAM memory. Entire editing on hundreds of DNG files have become hours of work, rather than a 10-minute job. I'm sure quality is better and smarter, but it's becoming no longer economical.  I suggest bringing CS5 back or the 2017 version was also worked well.

aographics_au
Participant
March 25, 2026

It turns out, McAfee anti-virus software was slowing down the software. Uninstalling and removing McAfee has drastically improved the Adobe Photoshop/ACR performance.

Claire H.
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 25, 2026

@aographics_au Thanks for letting us know what helped you. If you run into any other issues, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Happy editing!

tarou34917969cpdl
Participant
March 8, 2026

Feedback: Generative Remove must respect mask boundaries strictly

Camera Raw version: 18.2.1 (via Bridge)

Since version 17.5, Generative Remove has been modifying pixels outside the painted mask. Version 17.3.1 worked perfectly—changes were confined to the selected area only.

I relied on 17.3.1 to maintain this behavior, but as of March 9, 2026, the Generative AI server now rejects requests from 17.3.1, displaying a "Something went wrong" error. This effectively forces an upgrade to versions where the mask-boundary issue exists.

For professional retouching (portraits, products), unpredictable changes to eyes, hair, and skin outside the mask make this tool unusable. I strongly request:

  1. A "Strict Mask" option that guarantees zero modification outside the painted area
  2. Restoration of the 17.3.1-era behavior as the default

This was my most-used feature in Camera Raw. Please prioritize this fix. Thank you.

katik3177546326d5
Participant
March 3, 2026

只是笑話!以前有時還好.

CarlaDM
Participant
February 28, 2026

I find that the AI remove tool rarely works.  I almost always get an error that the action cannot be completed at this time and to try again later.  Very frustrating.  It’s rarely ever available to use.