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Brian.Lawlor
Brian.Lawlor
Participant
February 17, 2023
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Content-aware remove not working in LrC

  • February 17, 2023
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In the wake of the most recent LrC update, the healing tools in the Develop mode stopped working. It is simply not working at all. (I test the same tool in Camera Raw, and it worked fine.) I tried an LrC uninstall and reinstall, but that made no difference. How do I fix this?

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Correct answer JohanElzenga

You misunderstand how the tool works. This tool does not work the same way as the object selection tool in masking! It works like the old healing and clone versions. You should not drag the cursor around the object that you want to remove. You should paint over the object. What you paint is what gets removed, so right now only your thin line around the object gets removed.

 

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phil_0268
Participant
December 13, 2024

I have the same problem, or maybe a worse one.  Every time I select Remove, LR (Windows) goes into a loop and I need

to kill it.  I also can't get it to uncheck "Generative remove".    Why is Adobe releasing such buggy software on us?

We are paying monthly for this???

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 17, 2023

Check the tool settings. If the opacity is set to (almost) zero, then the tool will be ineffective.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
    Brian.Lawlor
    Brian.LawlorAuthor
    Participant
    February 17, 2023

    I had the opacity set to 100%, so that is not the issue. To help better understand what is happening on my end I have attached two screenshots. One shows an example of a JPG photo in which I was trying to remove the paper cup. All I get when I drag my cursor around the object to be removed is an odd, unfamiliar double-line line around the object; the other shows the aftermath, with no visibile result, and the also odd control-drag-context message. Huh?

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    February 18, 2023

    You misunderstand how the tool works. This tool does not work the same way as the object selection tool in masking! It works like the old healing and clone versions. You should not drag the cursor around the object that you want to remove. You should paint over the object. What you paint is what gets removed, so right now only your thin line around the object gets removed.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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