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P: Generative Remove Feedback (Lr Classic & Lr Eco)

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August 13, 2024
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This post applies to Lightroom Classic and the Lightroom Ecosystem products.

Camera Raw 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.

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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CaroleSD

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I am getting quite frustrated with both masking and remove. It is now impossible to work on a photo that has lots of masking changes. For a while remove was working pretty good. And masking too.

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@CaroleSD It is now impossible to work on a photo that has lots of masking changes.

Please do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.

Paul24590558pyq8

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Im not real happy with the generative remove tool. was ok at some things in the beginning, but as it is learning it seems to be getting worse. I try to remove a car from a background, it will add back garbled pieces of some unrecognizable car. No matter how many variants or regenerations I try it will keep doing it. What’s worse, it that sometimes it will regenerate the same thing every 4th or 5th regeneration. This would indicate the “AI” isn’t AI at all. I frequently have the same issue with letters in signs or walls. The clone stamp tool with feather adjustment works better for me more times than not.

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CaroleSD

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I totally agree. It has gotten much worse! And LRC slows to an unusable point when I am masking with lots of adds and subtracts. LR 15.2

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Brandon.J.Youngblood

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First, I would like to say that this AI generative remove is super cool and helpful! Thank you for including this in Lightroom Classic.

Secondly, I would like to give feedback about the generative remove feature’s consistent struggle with one particular scenario that I encounter often. When I use it to remove tree limbs from a sky, it preserves a white silhouette of the tree limb in the sky. I’ve included a sample picture that makes this obvious. This happens every time for me. If any work could be done on fixing this, I would find it tremendously helpful.

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@Brandon.J.Youngblood When I use it to remove tree limbs from a sky, it preserves a white silhouette of the tree limb in the sky

Most likely you’re applying Remove on top of an AI mask (e.g. Background). See here for how to handle that:

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jaapv64699057

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I shoot a lot of events. Ever so often I get someone asking me if I can avoid posting any shots they are captured in. From the introduction of the generative AI removal tool, I was able to paint over a face and immediately get AI generated faces to replace the one I captured. Since 2 updates ago, I now hardly ever get a replacement face suggested, let alone that I can cycle through a series. Instead it now appears like the face and head are recognised as “noise” and they get completely removed. the AI engine simply generates a continuation of the back ground.
And tit has me quite unhappy...

SisterP2

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I’m having hit-or-miss success with the generative AI remove tool. It seems to prefer to leave any white object (like a hospital bed) in place. I want it gone -- LRC wants it to stay. grrrr,,,,

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@SisterP2 t seems to prefer to leave any white object (like a hospital bed) in place.

If you’re applying Remove on top of an AI mask (e.g. Background), see here:

If that doesn’t help, please post a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic) of what the original photo and of the result after applying Remove.

48Woodchuck

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Worked very well removing a fence out of my picture. very happy!

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Ross25696038lm17

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Really not working very effectively for me on larger dust spots.
I’ve had to send the photos to photoshop and use the healing brush there as it works much better.

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@Ross25696038lm17 not working very effectively for me on larger dust spots. I’ve had to send the photos to photoshop and use the healing brush

Have you tried LR’s Healing tool or Content-Aware Remove (unchecking Use Generative AI)? They’re usually very effective at removing dust spots in scans:

For dust spots on the camera sensor, have you tried Remove > Distraction Removal > Dust?

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Ross25696038lm17

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I have tried this method as well as every other setting I could find and nothing was really sticking until I took to the photo over to PS.

Even once I’ve made the selection I couldn’t get the spot removed by adjusting the settings or updating the AI settings

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@Dmarg Generation produced a distinct negative of the object instead of replacing it with the background sky.

It sounds like you applied Remove on top of an AI mask, e.g. Sky. Is the AI Edit Status button yellow?

Click on it and do Update, which will recompute the mask and eliminate the ghost.

If this doesn’t address the issue, then please post a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic) of what you’re seeing, including the Masking panel.

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Dmarg

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Thank you. I actually discovered this solution sometime after my report and it worked. But it’s helpful to know that this is a normal procedure to follow. When I ‘ve used it before the need and the effects were not as obvious.

I do find it difficult when the full effects of changes made in (Generative) Remove are not visible until after exiting that function or, besides exiting, doing an Update in order to get an accurate depiction on the screen. It adds a lot of steps when multiple masks and removes need to be done in a photo.

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Dmarg

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Generation produced a distinct negative of the object instead of replacing it with the background sky. Not a problem seen before with fairly regular use.

MacOS 26.3.1, LrC 15.2

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@ali_9974 Generations are constantly pulling in more than the selected area, even for simple plain background cleanups.

This change for the worse was introduced in LR 14.5. Adobe has acknowledged this change as a “bug”:

and Adobe employee Sameer K posted on 10/29/2025, “The team has identified the issue, but the fix wasn't included in the Lightroom Classic v15 release. It'll arrive soon, as this issue goes beyond Lightroom Classic and also requires broader fixes in Camera Raw.” But no mention of a fix has appeared in subsequent release notes, and the bug hasn’t been marked as Fixed.

I recommend that you add your constructive feedback to that bug report and click Vote under the first post. Also, attach screenshots showing an example -- examples carry more weight.

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