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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
August 13, 2024
Question

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

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
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 

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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?

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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.

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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. 

 

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Participant
August 23, 2026

 

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Warmbrain501!
Participant
August 22, 2026

Edwards AFB Hanger Original:

 

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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.

 

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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.

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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 

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Participant
August 17, 2026

Kannste in Tonne werfen ,sorry ,aber was nicht funktioniert braucht kein Mensch.

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Participant
August 12, 2026

Another simple task with a terrible outcome. Shot of car on highway, trying to remove car behind. Car behind is gone but master car has been altered to look like a car crash or a Ferrari Luce. Miserable execution. What happened to the I in AI?

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Participant
August 11, 2026

I’m having a problem with Generative Removal when I select multiple objects at the same time.
In the “Before” image, all the elements I wanted to remove are marked in red: several fence lines and the sign on the right side of the image. As far as I could tell, the selection was cleanly defined and clearly visible. However, the result shows that the removal didn’t work reliably. Some sections of the fence weren’t removed cleanly, especially near the horse, and the sign didn’t disappear properly either. In some cases, it looks as though the selected areas simply vanish without the selected object actually being removed correctly. I fully understand that a large selection takes more time, and I have no problem with that. What’s really frustrating, though, is when the process takes a long time, but the result is unusable afterward, and I have to repeat the same step multiple times until it might finally work. It would be very helpful if Generative Removal worked more reliably when multiple areas are selected at once.
 

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johnrellis
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August 11, 2026

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​@Celestial_Solace06db, Generative Remove often struggles with removing long skinny objects. A few things that often can make it more reliable:

 

1. Remove one or a couple lines at a time.

 

2. With the Remove brush selected, click at one end of the line and shift-click at the other -- that will make a straight selection without having to drag the brush all the way across.

 

3. Content-Aware Remove is sometimes more reliable at removing lines.  (Select Mode: Remove and uncheck Use Generative AI.)

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