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

@brunomendesreal: "The tool removes but does not create texture, it leaves the removed area blurred, making the photo look strange."

Many have observed here that the replacements made by Generative Remove sometimes don't match the photo's tone or noise. To get better matches, these techniques sometimes help:

1. Adobe recommends applying Denoise before Remove. This can reduce the noise, making it more likely the replacement will match.

2. The replacement patch supplied by Adobe Firefly has a maximum size of 2048 x 2048 pixels. If the selected area in the photo is larger than that, then the replacement patch gets upscaled (and blurry). Try removing smaller selections if possible.

3. Conversely, try making a larger selection, even including the entire background. Upscaling of the replacement sometimes won't be noticeable then.

4. Sometimes there's a distinctly visible boundary where the tone or noise don't match. You can often use the heal tool around the boundary to get better feathering and make it less noticeable -- apply Heal in small brush strokes. Or use a Brush mask with maximum feathering, dropping local Texture, Clarity, and Sharpness to their minimum values. Sometimes, making a very raggedy selection around the object makes the boundary less noticeable.

5. For grain/noise in particular, see this post for how to ameliorate the problem by adding the grain back or reducing the grain:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-generative-remove-feedback-lr-classic-amp-lr-eco/m-p/14917497#M382464

@moniquek10128778: "Lately, after generative removal, a bright spot always remains (the area that was removed or masked). This is very annoying!"

If you applied Remove on top of an AI mask (e.g. Sky or Subject mask), do the menu command Settings > Update AI Settings to recompute the mask.

If that doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot). With nearly every one of the many dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

Thanks for your reply. Do you have any timelines for this improvement?

BR.

Olaf

@olaf_5035: "tell me how to us this feature if my computer is behind a Proxy."

See here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/proxy-authentication-support-creative-cloud.html

Also, in Lightroom Classic, see Preferences > Network.

"Working to remove/clean up the bottom of this shoe and instead of JUST removing the black"

A thing to keep in mind with Generative AI Remove is that it is always trying to generate a replacement that it thinks best matches the area surrounding the selection.   So what you don't select is as important as what you select. 

In this case, selecting the white part of the heel and the reflecting scuff marks on the sole causes replacements that try to match the back part of the heel and clean part of the sole, without changing the shape of the shoe:

I had to try about 6 variants to find this one.

Sometimes it helps to do two removals. In this case, I first replaced the white part of the heel, and then replaced the white reflective scuff marks:

I looked at perhaps 6-8 variations for each. 

A tip: When you're looking at more than the first 3 variations and see one that you think is plausible, make a snapshot by clicking the + button the Snapshots panel. Then you can later review all the saved snasphots very quickly.

@blukom: "if I want to delete a car the actual car will be replaced by another Ai-generated car instead of a reconstruction of the background"

See this short article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot). With nearly every one of the many dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

@Daniel336694186n1h, removing .lrcat-data and doing batch Update AI Settings on all photos has worked for many others with these symptoms. I don't know why it isn't work for you, unfortunately.  Do you have the latest version of LR installed, 14.3.1?  If you're not positive, do the menu command Help > System Info to triple-check. There was a bug with Update AI Settings that Adobe fixed a couple releases ago.

You could try chatting with Adobe support. To get to a human, go here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html

click on the chat bubble at the bottom, and type "agent".

But beware that Adobe support is notorious for often not helping with difficult technical issues and sometimes will say anything to close out an issue.