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P: New AI-powered Generative Remove (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

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May 16, 2024
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The Photography team is sharing an early look at Generative Remove, which makes it easier to remove unwanted objects and distractions, even on complex backgrounds, with a simple brush stroke. Generative Remove is powered by Firefly AI.

How to use Generative Remove on a desktop:

You can find Generative Remove under the newly renamed Remove panel (aka “Heal”).
Make sure the “generative AI” checkbox is enabled before you start brushing (note: when unchecked, Lightroom will use Content-Aware Remove to fill your brushed spots).
By default, you will be given a moment to refine your selection with an add or subtract brush. Remember to include shadows for a more accurate result! You can also skip this step by holding down ‘CTRL’ on windows or ‘CMD’ on mac as you finish your brush stroke.
Once you’re ready to apply and have accepted the terms, Generative Remove will use Firefly AI to remove your distractions and intelligently fill in the space that’s left by the removed objects.
Note: stable internet connection is required to use this feature.
Generative Remove also lets you choose from multiple variations, so you can pick the one you like best, giving you full creative control.

Please give it a try and share feedback and/or report variations in this community forum. It would greatly help to include details like which app you are using (i.e., Lightroom Classic or Camera Raw) and other system details. Our team will continually monitor this thread to track issues to improve the future experience.

Lisa Ngo: Lightroom Product Manager
Posted by: Rikk Flohr

Update (Dec 2024): With the new release, it is no longer necessary to perform Generative Remove Operations prior to Cropping.

Update:

Here are some tips if you are having issues with the feature replacing your object instead of removing it.

Enlarge your selection - if your brush stroke is too tight, you will have unexpected results.
Remember that removing an object means painting over it, its shadow, its reflection, and any non-contiguous pieces. If you leave behind a shadow, a reflection, or a disconnected piece (e.g., a hand on a shoulder), the AI will attempt to create something to cast the shadow, reflect, or complete the unbrushed discontinuous item.

The recommended order for applying edits is:

Denoise
Heal (includes Generative AI Remove)
Crop (includes traditional Cropping, Lens Correction, Transform, or any operation changing the geometry of the image, including round-tripping to PS to use Gen-Expand)
Global Edits
AI Selective edits (Sky, Person, etc)

If you deviate from that, you may see the removed object remain a ghost image. If this occurs, you will have to use Update AI Settings.

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dave gorke

Participant

When using "Generative AI" at first, I discovered that I could change some of my vertciaI images OK and on some it would not work properly. I discovered in my camera I can set an option to rotate images, "ON" or "OFF"

If I have it "off" in the camera and import a vertical image into LR, then rotate it in LR, "Generative AI" will not work properly. If I rotate back to its original state, "AI" will work, then I can rotate it back after the change.

If I have it "on" in the camera and import a vertical image into LR, then "Generative AI" will work properly.

So far my experimenting with this new feature has worked well.

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Nshowalter

Participating Frequently

I've used the Generative AI tool to remove some objects in LRC. When it syncs to LR the objects remain.

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jim32650877pzu5

Participant

i have tried several times on several raw images and the object does not disapear. After I hit apply the object remains with the line I placed around it remaining.

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Maximilian376477290y0f

Participant

The feature worked amazingly and the content generation is pretty much spot on, saves a lot of pictures from photobombs and unwanted obstruction. A bit of an improvement might be the ability to tweak the basic lighting (exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, etc.) to the generative fill mask. Most of the mask seem to come out slightly darker than it's suppose to, 90% it's not so visible unless zooming in on it but occasionally it does stick out like a sore thumb.

Wes Duenkel

Inspiring

Yup. Same problem here.

hajimeo92377158

Participant

生成AIを使用して人物を削除してくて新機能を試みているのですが、

「生成削除に失敗しました」

「サービスが応答していません。インターネットを確認して、再試行してください。」

というダイアログが表示され、機能しません。

ネットには繋がっています。

原因を教えてください。

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DeAnn37637792h6w6

Participant

Object removal worked, but left a big dark patch, which had to be removed with the radial gradient to lighten it.

Wes Duenkel

Inspiring

YES! I HAVE THIS SAME PROBLEM!

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timb39197274

Participant

I have tried this a couple of times and find it has left a shadow of the area I was trying to remove - not impressed so far

Wes Duenkel

Inspiring

YES. I have this same issue. This is new. Prevous Generative AI didn't do this!

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Santiago37603762tndr

Participant

Como hago para conectar LR a la web, tengo internet estable y no puedo utilizar el borrador generativo por que sale error alguien que me ayude porfavor

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Christian Gnad

Participant

If you're working on mac, it's strange, because i never had to set anything for Ps or LrC to have internet connection. If you're on windows i don't know.

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Christian Gnad

Participant

For me, what would really be a game changer in workflow would be to have a direct button "Remove tool" function in Lightroom similar to the one in Photoshop Beta. I shoot a lot of Still Photograpy, and having the ability to quickly in LrC make small corrections on someones face, to remove a Boom operators micro, a cable on the ground of the set, etc., would help me work faster. For more elaborate and rare situations i don´t mind that much having to jump between LrC and Ps.