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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
August 13, 2024
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P: Generative Remove Feedback (Lr Classic & Lr Eco)

  • 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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Participant
September 6, 2026

I removed several unwanted branches in this photo without any problem but the last branch does not disappear tottaly regardless where I put the opacity

johnrellis
Legend
September 6, 2026

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@Eager_Buttercupa540 I removed several unwanted branches in this photo without any problem but the last branch does not disappear tottaly regardless where I put the opacity

 

It may be that you applied Remove on top of an AI mask, in which case the AI Edit Status button will be yellow:

 

Click the button and do Update to recompute the mask.

 

If this doesn’t help, then attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unedited photo and a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic) of the entire LR window showing the removal that’s not working.

Participant
September 4, 2026

I find the AI tools very powerful and I use them regularly, however there are weakeness. My comments are:

  1.  I use the tool to delate people. however, quite often it only replaces it with other people. Is there a way I can simple replace it with NO person?
  2. I don’t have much success with reflection reduction and most of the I still have the reflection. When it does work its brilliant.
  3. The removing people and and reflection is great. But the tool I would use the most is a single button hat identifies and removs of powerlines. I
Participant
August 29, 2026

This action has never worked for me.  I turn off generative fill and it still places random objects in that space.  I have tried clone and bandaid as well.  Nothing!  

All I want to do is remove an object like I did before the addition of AI.

Participant
August 26, 2026

Good day

 

I would really love it if the team could look into a wierd thing that the Generative AI does sometimes in lightroom Classic. It creates unnecessary textures or colours. For instance when removing an object from a white wall. It removes the object but leaves behind strange textures and colours. almost like a “tie-die” look. And on the face, when trying to remove texture or wrinkles, it creates worse texture and wrinkles at times. perhaps it can be taught to always smooth when dealing with the face instead of creating crazy textures. Thank you so much 

Participant
August 24, 2026

My classic version now seems to default to “remove” (nobody wants) instead of “generative remove” (everybody wants). Can you switch it back?

johnrellis
Legend
August 24, 2026

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@mattophoto, normally Remove remembers the settings you used for the last remove you performed:

 

If that’s not happening for you, restart your computer. If the problem persists, try resetting LR's preferences:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/
 
LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

Participant
August 23, 2026

There is a strange effect happening with all removal tools, limited to just this photo. Applies to cloning tool, healing tool, and generative removal tool. The arm is removed, but it is left with a lighter silhouette. 

 

Participant
August 23, 2026

 

Warmbrain501!
Participant
August 22, 2026

Edwards AFB Hanger Original:

 

Warmbrain501!
Participant
August 22, 2026

Edwards AFB in Palmdale, CA, had an open house.  One of their active planes was in a hanger and next to the fuselage was a yellow staircase.  Overall am I pleased with the outcome?  Yes.  Is it perfect?  No.  Maybe with PS.  I never took to PS.  Is it useable?  Yes.

And here’s a tip:  Be more than willing to take your time.  Use the Remove tool in smaller bites.  Instead in attempting to encircle the object(s) you want to remove try punching “dots, then expand and after every edit, reset by going to the Library then back to Develop.

 

Participant
August 22, 2026

Make it so that I can select an Area as a REFERENCE so that the Generative Remove AI can study that area, and generate something akin to that. Instead of making it hallucinate and make up things that does not fit into a scene - especially when editing something like a blurry background with faults that need to be removed/edited out.

Known Participant
August 18, 2026

I used the Remove tool in the current version of Lightroom Classic (15.4.1 Release, Camera Raw 18.4) and checked the boxes for Generative AI and Detect objects. As you will see from the before and after photos attached, the object (the front of a white car sticking out from behind the Town and Country RESORT sign was removed in all three variations but the replacement background in each of them (a textured road) lacked the fine, detail of the rest of the road, and the replacement thin plant leaves were jagged instead of smooth. The unwanted object was removed but what replaced it was poor. I’ve attached the best of the three variations.

Jan Wagner