P: New AI-powered Generative Remove (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

So far this does not work on my system. When I select the AI generate buttton, it locks up all the tools and I have to restart lightroom. 

I would say that this LR-tool is really "at an very early stage" and there is a lomg way to go until it will work. I tried so many times just to delete items – a person, traffic signs, Sheets of paper on walls, bins etc  –  on plain or structured backgtounds and in 80 percent I failed. Suprisingly the results in PS are much better than in LR – for ever reason. So I‘ll do the most of the retouch furthermore in PS.  

The Generative KI takes Lightroom Classic up to a absolute new level! 🙂

It's really great to see that this tool can work on HDR-enabled images. Photoshop doesn't seem to handle content-aware fill or generative AI with 32-bit images.

Three things I'd love to see Adobe look into, and/or get help with, based on my experience thus far. They're all related to the same general issues around background matching + edge handling, and my biggest experience is when dealing with blurrier objects. Often, on flat backgrounds (smudge/reflection against sky).

1) The tool seems to almost always leave a noticeable line or hard transition between the gen AI area and the surroundings. This is the worst (and visible even zoomed pretty far out) against sky or any flat background, but it's often there even on a more complex background as well. I tend to see this whether the goal is more of an object replacement or a removal.

2) Flat backgrounds often don't get very well matched in terms of pattern, color, and/or texture to their surroundings. This is even the case when the background for the object within the gen AI area is the same as the background outside of the area. Again, e.g. sky or similar. This exacerbates and is related to the edge handling/line issue in #1. 

3) Like others have noted, I often get "replace" rather than "remove" even if an entire object + shadow seem to me to be selected. This is particularly a problem when the "object" isn't recognizable as an object, persay. For example, a reflection in a window or a blurry finger at the edge of a photograph. The Gen AI result is often something "new" that's a little smeary rather than actual removal. I can cycle through/refresh to eventually find one that's more true "removal," but I have to get lucky to find something that also minimizes #1 and #2 as much as possible.

Per recommendations, I do use the "standard" removal tools (content-aware remove/heal) as much as I can. And sometimes I'll use them to touch up what Gen AI has produced. However, they struggle with larger areas and more complex objects. It's exciting that Gen AI does better, but it'd be great to be able to handle the above scenarios better.

Hola! funciona pero dejó de funcionar correctamente el quitador de manchas a partir de esta nueva versión. No me deja selección origen.  Me interpone las manchas (aún eligiendo superposición automática o cualquiera)

Generative Remove in Lightroom is far inferior to GR in Photoshop. Also, in both programs, trying to remove cars on the street or driveway from real estate drone photos yields very poor results. It usually replces the vehicle with another fake vehicle instead of removing it (the "Remove" prompt does nothing). I talking 1 lone car an an otherwise empty street.

Can't work 2024/5/30

the LRC feedback facility does not work for me??

As many are finding, this 'remove' tool seems more like a 'replace' tool. I have used it a number of times now and every single time the object I want to remove just gets replaced with a similar object: a person with another person, and stray arm with another arm, a traffic cone with another traffic cone. Not what I expected and required. The odd thing is that a number of YouTube reviews I have seen are not experiencing this at all. I can't see any options to alter this from replace to remove. Early days I guess.

Amazing and a life changing tool