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

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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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Jess35474710fnty

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Anyone else having this error? I can't use AI in lightroom at all. I have tried updating, restarting, and still cant' use. Going back to pulling into photohsop which is annoying when you get used to doing it in lightroom Anyone else?

johnrellis

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@Jess35474710fnty: "Some Remove settings need to be updated"

These symptoms can occur when LR can't write the .lrcat-data file for some reason, either because LR has corrupted it or there is a permissions issue. LR stores computed masks in that file. Try these steps:

1. In LR, do Edit > Catalog Settings > General > Show. That will open Windows File Explorer on the current catalog folder.

2. Exit LR.

3. Move the file <catalog>.lrcat-data to the Desktop.

4. Start LR.

5. In Library Grid view (not Loupe view), select all photos and do Photo > Develop Settings > Update AI Settings. That will recompute all the AI masks, which could take a while.

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Jess35474710fnty

Participant

I got to 'catalog' and not sure if you mean the most recent catalog file or what. As there are updated catalog files. Does it matter which one?

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defaultt4hs2n2vd37h

Participant

Could we please either have a bigger more obvious indicator that generative fill is on OR else the ability to turn it off without losing current selections. It is a pain in the proverbial to select a score of e.g. dust spots on scanned slides and then notice AI is box-ticked so one either waits and waits and waits for AI you don't need, or else have to reselect everything.

And why is it only the first object where Adobe says "No, I know better, you wanted to delete *this* area, not the one you actually marked?" Everything else it appears to process as marked, but not the first. Annoying!

johnrellis

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@defaultt4hs2n2vd37h: "Could we please either have a bigger more obvious indicator that generative fill is on"

Are you referring to this?

"And why is it only the first object where Adobe says "No, I know better, you wanted to delete *this* area, not the one you actually marked?" Everything else it appears to process as marked, but not the first."

Uncheck Detect Objects -- it doesn't work well, especially with skinny objects and along the edges of photos.

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Alluring_customer15D5

Participant

Hi, I would like to know if there is possible that remove tool can use reference photo to remove unwanted people in photo.

The case is I took a series of photos, ex:

Photo A: comes with me and scenery but there are some unwanted passers-by in it.

Photo B: comes with only scenery without any passers-by in it.

Can I use photo B as reference photo to use remove tool in photo A?

Means the generative AI can generate missing spot same as reality (photo B).

Thank you.

johnrellis

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@Alluring_customer15D5: "Can I use photo B as reference photo to use remove tool in photo A? Means the generative AI can generate missing spot same as reality (photo B)."

Generative AI wasn't designed for that. You can use Photoshop's older tools to do it, e.g.

https://www.google.com/search?q=photoshop+remove+people+from+scene+using+multiple+photographs&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1064US1064&oq=photoshop+remove+people+from+scene+using+multiple+photographs&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTEwMTUzajBqMqgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Jörn30508673pbag

Participant

Funktioniert schon mal sehr gut, wenn ich allerdings gegen den blauen Himmel fotografiert habe und z.B. Äste entfernen möchte, dann bleibt am Ende der KI-Retusche ein etwas dunkleres Blau zu sehen, sodass erkennbar ist, wo die Retusche stattgefunden hat.

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DavidH77

Known Participant

Manchmal passiert das wenn man vorher eine Maske gemacht hat die z.B. den Himmel veraendert. Was in dem Fal hilt ist alle Masken zu loeschen und zuerst das Remove tool zu verwenden. Du kannst die Masken vorher kopieren und nach dem Remove tool wieder anwenden, musst also nicht von Vorne anfangen.

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Bill LeTourneau

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Hi- I'm consistently getting a "we've encountered an issue and can't complete your request at this time. Please try again later"

Anyone else?

johnrellis

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@Bill LeTourneau: " "we've encountered an issue and can't complete your request at this time. Please try again later"

That uninformative error message indicates that Generative Remove is unable to contact the Adobe servers. Sometimes firewalls and anti-malware / anti-virus utilities incorrectly block some network requests from LR. Try these troubleshooting steps:

- Temporarily disable all the firewall / anti-malware on your computer. If that solves the problem, then add a specific exclusion for LR to the firewall's rules.

- Connect to another network, preferably one serviced by a different ISP. E.g. a Wifi connection of a neighbor, a coffee shop, work, or your phone's hotspot. Sometimes the routers in these networks block LR's requests, especially in authoritarian countries like China.

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ANMAZO

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La eliminacion de personas no funciona correctamente.

johnrellis

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@ANMAZO: "Deleting people is not working properly."

Please attach full-resolution screenshots (not phone pics) showing the *entire* LR window with the selection you've made and then the results.

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DavidH77

Known Participant

I often run into the generative AI remove tool refusing to do it's job citing 'check community guidlines'. I'm a professional photographer working with dancers and gymnasts. I regularly have this issue. I find it rather annoying that a person wearing a typical dancer outfit or a leotard triggers some kind of guideline issue. I'm usually trying to fix hair falling into the person's face or a wrinkle in the fabric.
I'm including my current version below, but it is really irrelevant as I have been getting these flase guidline fails with every version since generative AI remove has been added to Lightroom Classic.

MacBook Pro M1

15.3.2 (24D81)
Lightroom Classic 14.2

Attached is a screen shot of a typical photos where generative AI refuses to work. It works fine on different photos from this session, same outfit, just a different pose.

johnrellis

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Lots of people have complained about this in the feedback thread for Generative Remove:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-generative-remove-feedback-lr-classic-amp-lr-eco/m-p/14797225#M382184

Adobe, like the other major AI providers, is scared of the political fallout that might occur if their platforms were used for pornography (especially child p o r n) and other "socially harmful" purposes. So they tune their automatic detection algorithms conservatively, erring on the side of too many false positives.

No one has posted any workarounds.

johnrellis

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I had to replace with "child p o r n" just now to get around the nanny filter.

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FleurVastgoedsuppo

Participant

Hello, sinds a month or longer, when i use thus tool, after a few seconds i go back to the previous picture. The part that i erased with the erase tool with Generative AI is not erased anymore. Instead it says, the preferences needed to be updated.

The i click on update everything underneath this tool and then it needs some seconds, sometimes like 20.

But the problem isn't solved, still needed to update again and again.

I deleted Lightroom Classic and downloaded again, also made a new lightroom catalog.

Anybody with the same problem?

It runs on a macmini

everything is updated like lightroom classic and other software.

Gr. Fleur

johnrellis

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@FleurVastgoedsuppo: "The part that i erased with the erase tool with Generative AI is not erased anymore. Instead it says, the preferences needed to be updated. ... still needed to update again and again."

An earlier version of LR 14 fixed a serious bug with these symptoms. Next steps:

A. Do the menu command Help > System Info. If you're not running LR 14.2 (the current version), do Help > Updates.

B. These symptoms can occur when LR can't write the .lrcat-data file for some reason, either because LR has corrupted it or there is a permissions issue. LR stores computed masks in that file. Try these steps:

1. In LR, do Edit > Catalog Settings > General > Show. That will open Windows File Explorer on the current catalog folder.

2. Exit LR.

3. Move the file <catalog>.lrcat-data to the Desktop.

4. Start LR.

5. In Library Grid view (not Loupe view), select all photos and do Photo > Develop Settings > Update AI Settings. That will recompute all the AI masks, which could take a while.

C. If steps A and B don't help, 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.

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ricoyvr

Participating Frequently

Lightroom Classic Version 14.2

Macbook Pro M4 48GB

In this sample photo, I selected the "ThinkPad" logo off of a laptop hood using the remove tool with generative AI.

You'll see that it removed the logo, BUT you can clearly see the blotch left behind.

This image was shot at ISO 8,000 so there is some noise in this image, and although LRC removed the logo, it could not properly match the noise levels of the surrounding area to make it 100% invisible.

johnrellis

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@ricoyvr: "This image was shot at ISO 8,000 so there is some noise in this image, and although LRC removed the logo, it could not properly match the noise levels of the surrounding area to make it 100% invisible."

A fair number have complained about this. A couple of ways to deal with problem:

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

2. 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

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ZappaJul

Participating Frequently

Gen Remove Feedback, LrC 14.2

MacBook Pro M3 Max, 64GB 1TB SSD, Sequoia 15.3.2. Experience: LrC 18 years / PS 25 years.

I'm finding all the Gen AI tools immensely frustrating in both LrC and PS. Even worse is the loss of functionality we had previosuly, so I can't even just ignore them. I rarely have issues learning new software but this has ruined my workflow and caused massive loss of productivity. The remove/clone/heal tools in LrC were never brilliant, but they did have their uses for isolated areas away from high contrast elements. Now even that basic functionality has vanished and I have to go PS for 99% of heal / remove clone actions.

File 1 (attached): Task: Remove door knob from foreground. Initially tried Generative Remove but it added so many other artefacts I gave up. Returned to file later to try other tools (Remove, Heal). Results:
File 2 (attached): Fill > Remove. Tried 3 x refresh, difference barely visible, so not included here.

File 3 (attached): Fill > Heal (this would have worked OK previously).

File 4: (immediately below) Refresh x 1 (Seriously? Why sample the curtain? It bears no reseenblance to either doorknob or cupboard and is nowhere near either in image).

File 5: Refresh x 2

File 6: Refresh x 3

File 7: Fill > returned to Generative Remove. This time it worked. Wish I'd kept all the versions with artefacts it added previously, which included adding copies of the cupboard handles in background, completely new cupboard handles it made up, more versions involving the curtains and removal of white line seperating wardrobe doors.

It took a total of ±12-15 attempts before achieving the final result. I don't have time for this.

I wish Adobe had either left the whole AI thing alone or made sure it worked reliably before integrating it it into every element of the software, and left the old tools alone so users could fall back on them when the AI fails - which is provign to be most of the time so far. It works well for very specific tasks which look great when demonstrated at shows / online, but it's failed me utterly in my everyday work).

johnrellis

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@ZappaJul: "Remove door knob from foreground."

Generative Remove eliminated the doorknob from your screenshot on the first try:

Make sure you uncheck Detect Objects -- it doesn't work well, especially with skinny objects and along the edges of photos.

If that doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot), so we can see what might be going wrong. 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.

johnrellis

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@ZappaJul: "The remove/clone/heal tools in LrC were never brilliant, but they did have their uses for isolated areas away from high contrast elements. Now even that basic functionality has vanished"

The previous tools, now called "modes", are still available:

Clone:

Heal:

Content-Aware Remove:

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