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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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86 replies

Participant
June 13, 2025

I find it annoying that path that is traced every time I use the -Remove Ai tool-

Do you know how to fix this?

Thank you

 

Participant
May 26, 2025

Hello, I am trying to remove reflection with "Distraction Removal" but my PS does not have this feature & I have the new updated app.

Participant
May 17, 2025

I've tried the reflection removal tool on 3 images and the tool failed to perform. Granted that two were fairly complicated and on the 3rd removed objects behind a window that should have remained in the image, but missed entirely the reflection that I wanted to remove.  

Robert Ripps
Inspiring
May 16, 2025

Generally works pretty well, but every now and then I seem to come up with this error message: Remove does not currently support transparent image areas. No idea what that means, as it's exactly the same background as another item I just removed successfully from this same image.

Robert Ripps
Inspiring
June 25, 2025

Still having occasional issues with remove- maybe 5-10% of the time I am getting same error message as before about transparent image areas, whatever that means. Usually, I will have done several images that are similar without any problem, but then all of a sudden on the next image, I get this message. Usually if I go away from the image and come back to it, reselect the area again, and try to do the remove it usually works, but not always.

 

 

Also getting some new and different error messages today:

 

 

It is really frustrating when you are trying to get a job out the door, and your tools keep failing…

Robert Ripps
Inspiring
June 26, 2025

I just updated to the newest version of ACR, 17.4, and Bridge, 15.1.0, for Mac. I was able to remove the object from the image that caused me problems earlier, giving me the expected three choices each go round.  But when I went to a second image, and tried the same exact procedure, it no longer gave me three options, but instead just made the change to the image without me having a choice, of three variations!

 

I don’t understand why the behavior for Generative Remove has changed, using the same program, same settings, from one image to the next…

Participating Frequently
May 6, 2025

The Destruction Removal option including Reflections and People is missing from my Camera Raw 17.3 version (Photoshop 26.6) is missing. There is no such an option (

Participant
April 28, 2025

Why doesn't distraction removal show up on my system? I work for the VA and we have people with reflections on there glasses I need to remove and don't have the time to do it the old way. I am updated and running the newest software.

Erik Bloodaxe
Legend
April 28, 2025

Look in Camera Raw Preferences and check this box.

That said, refelection removal currently does not work for small reflections such as spectacles.

dencon
Known Participant
April 19, 2025

It would be great to be able to back track when using the remove tool.  Here's why: I somewhat successfully removed unwanted folds in a sweater worn by the subject that also needed a bit of a "tummy tuck", which I performed with the warp tool later in Photoshop. After finished, I noticed a few things on the sweater that I hadn't noticed previously.  Parts of the sweater "fix" were rendered blurry.  It would be great to be able to identify where the remove tool started doing that by being able to go back in its history step by step rather than having to start all over.  Thanks in advance.

Participant
April 16, 2025

Spot removal using generative AI is replacing the hot pixels with symbols?

Participant
April 13, 2025

working fine

wise_visionary0D45
Participant
April 13, 2025

just used for a construction image. i needed a photo of a wall but all the saftey features are more distracting than the wall. You'd never remove them in real life, as that's a hazard. So i had to take the photos and hope for the best in editing. I loaded it into bridge, then it opened in camera raw. i got the notif about the AI so i figured i'd try it. INCREDIBLE RESULTS. very coool to see. this could have taken me a while to do, getting all the gravel right and the angle of the ditch that is dug within the area i had to recreate. this got the angle right, got the gravel, even gave me 3 variations!!! i was gonna use the first one because i was so impressed, but the third added little scuffs on the ground, giving me a bit of a distraction from the maybe AI artifacts that will probably be in the photo upon further inspection. i havent ran through the whole outline in detail yet im for real just so impressed with this i had to give a positive review. ok ttyl