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

@GerbenPhoto: "remove somebody's head in the foreground it doesn't remove the head, but replaces it for another head."

You need to remove all parts of the person's body, including shoulders or arms or whatever that are disconnected from the head, and remove all shadows. If you leave any bits behind, Remove will try to match them.  See this article for an example and more details:

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, 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.

Completely agree.  The new version is absolutely terrible. 

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@f8lee: "After a few seconds of "thinking" the power lines were not altered in any way."

Working with the low-resolution export you attached, I can easily remove the power lines one by one:

 Since that export stripped all the clueful metadata, I can't give precise remedies, but things to check:

- Make sure the Opacity slider is 100.

- When you select a line, make sure you select the entire line -- if you leave any bits unselected, Remove will generate a matching replacement.

- Detect Objects often doesn't work very well with lines -- uncheck it.

- If you had previously applied Crop, Transform, or Lens Corrections, undo those, apply Remove, and then redo them. Remove will match the unselected cropped-out pixels on the edges otherwise.

But if this doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, including all metadata.

When removing objects against a uniform sky, Remove sometimes doesn't do a good job of blending in the replacement. I got better-blended replacements by making the edges of the selected ragged and selecting the lower three lines in one selection:

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Remove easily removed the pole and its shadow from your screenshot:

Your screenshot shows that you've cropped and applied masking. In general, you should Remove first, then crop and use AI masking. See this article for more details:
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, 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.

@Emosie24472695pp4c: ". In most cases we simply want it to erase the background, not create anything new, I think the previous version did it better."

Please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from an unmodified original photo in which LR 14 isn't doing as well as you'd like. There have been a number of complaints that LR 13 did it better, but so far no one has provided any examples.

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@NetHawk: "if I want to remove a hydrant, for example, it gets replaced by another type of hydrant instead of being removed altogether. "

With your attached JPEG, Remove quickly removed the hydrant:

The photo's metadata indicates you had cropped the original raw along the bottom. Remove looks at all the photo's pixels, including those cropped out by Crop, Lens Corrections, and Transform. So undo the crop, apply Remove, then redo the crop.   

See this article for more details on this and other tips for removing objects more reliably:

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

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@bonnieleek: "instead of removing the objects it just kept them in place and trhe "variations" had shaddows of them. "

Make sure the Opacity slider is set to 100:

You'll have to make at least one brush stroke to see the slider. 

If that doesn't help, 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, 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.

@fd31069616: "When removing people along the edge of a photo..."

Remove looks at pixels that have been cropped out by Crop, Transform, and Lens Corrections. So undo those commands, do Remove, then reapply them.  If that doesn't help, you may be editing a raw from a camera that automatically crops out a border along the edges of the photo, and Remove looks at those cropped-out pixels too; see here for how to workaround that bug:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/generative-remove-doesn-t-ignore-the-hidden-border-pixels-automatically-cropped-by-camera-raw/m-p/14925572 

If this still doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, 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.