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

@AkhileshS20: "my LR generative remove is not working at all."

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.

- On Mac, try relaunching the Finder -- start Finder, click the Finder menu, and do Quit Finder. Someone reported that this solved this problem for him.

To help others, please let us know which of these work and which don't.

@Rikk Flohr: Photography: "Update (Dec 2024):  With the new release, it is no longer necessary to perform Generative Remove Operations prior to Cropping."

...or Transform or Lens Corrections. And it's no longer necessary to do heroic brushing to remove objects along the edges of photos where LR / Camera Raw has applied the can't-be-disabled hidden cropping performed on many cameras.

This will avoid a lot of the confusion reported in this thread!

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"Hopeless. Frustrating. No value for money as the tool just cannot be used meaningfully. Waste of time."

In your previous post in this thread last month, you provided a screenshot of where you wanted to remove a cable, and I pointed out that you should uncheck Detect Objects and review a quick-read tutorial. I also said, "But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects."  You never responded.

Using your screenshot, I quickly removed the cables with Generative Remove:

In another thread, you wrote, "Lightroom is unable to remove this cable. I tried a few times, but end result is that the cable stays there, no change!" Again, Generative Remove did a good job of quickly removing the cable:

In another post in this thread, you complained you weren't able to remove a stick crossing front of a rodent. Someone pointed out that you should select the entire stick, not part of it. You never responded. That works well with your screenshot:

In another post in this thread, you complained about not being able to remove sticks from the background, and we pointed out you needed to apply Remove before cropping and do Update AI Settings after applying Remove on an AI mask. You never responded.

The problems you've reported are addressed by this short, five-minute article to which I've referred you before:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/ 

Have you read it? If you have, and you're still having problems, show that I'm an idiot by attaching several full-resolution problem JPEGs exported from the unmodified original photos (not a screenshot, not a modified image). 

@riley_0222: "The generative remove will not remove powerlines for me"

1. Uncheck Detect Objects (on by default in LR 14) -- it doesn't work well, especially with skinny objects and along the edges of photos.

2. Power lines usually go to the edges of the photo. If you've applied Crop, Lens Correction, or Transform, undo them, apply Remove, then redo them. Remove looks at all the pixels of a photo and will try to match the unselected cropped-out pixels.

3. See this 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), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly every one of the several dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

@prgal: "I have regenrated 5 times and it keeps replacing it with weird objects."

See this 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), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly every one of the several dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

@Sean23718437xqry: "making sure the quality/noise of the generative remove MATCHES the rest of the photo."

A fair number of people have complained about this. There are a couple issues with grain and textures:

1. 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). 

2. Even when there's no upscaling of the replacement patch, Remove doesn't always match textures and grain very well.

For grain in particular, see this post for how to ameliorate the problem by adding the grain back:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-generative-remove-feedback-lr-classic...

@Thomas3198030305sb: "tly. I just want to replace this corner of the photo with more dark corner, but Remove keeps just giving me more versions of what is ALREADY THERE"

Your screenshots indicate that the photo has been cropped.  That, combined with the fact I can remove the corner from the screenshot and you can remove the corner in PS, points at the problem: You're applied Remove on a cropped photo. Remove looks at all of the photo's pixels and is trying to match the unselected, cropped-out pixels. Undo Crop, Transform, and Lens Correction (all of which crop out pixels), apply Remove, and then redo those commands. (When you send the photo to PS, all those cropped-out pixels are removed and PS doesn't see them.)

This is a very common cause of confusion, and LR should really warn users about existing crops or simply disable them while the Remove panel is open, as it does with Lens Blur.  

See this article for more details about this and other guidelines 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), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly every one of the several dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

@Jose Alberto Otarola: " The AI ​​in my LrC is not working for me"

Please describe in detail what steps you are taking and what you see (or don't see). If there's an error message, please post a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic).