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Participant
May 11, 2025 7:21 PM UTC
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Remove Tool leaves visible halo after recent update.

After the latest update of Lightroom Mobile, the “Remove” tool started leaving a visible halo or ghost outline even after export.

This never happened before — I’ve used the same tool with AI successfully many times, and now the exported image has an artifact. I’m editing JPEGs.

I already tried reinstalling the app, but it didn’t help.

Please investigate — this affects my workflow. 
on iPhone! 

JohanElzenga
JohanElzengaCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 12, 2025 10:23 AM UTC

Did you use a sky mask? If Lightroom creates a sky mask, and there is an object in the sky, then that object is not selected as sky, so it will be a gap in the mask. If you then remove that object, the gap in the mask is still preset and causes this strange ghost object. The solution is simple: you need to update the mask.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Participant
Aug 23, 2026 9:22 AM UTC

Hm 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 12, 2025 10:23 AM UTC

Did you use a sky mask? If Lightroom creates a sky mask, and there is an object in the sky, then that object is not selected as sky, so it will be a gap in the mask. If you then remove that object, the gap in the mask is still preset and causes this strange ghost object. The solution is simple: you need to update the mask.

 

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-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participant
Jun 15, 2025 4:23 AM UTC

i do not think that is just it. I was even guessing it might be cuz of some masks i had left. Nope, it is a technical issue. This had been happening since a long time and I had been ignoring. it is frustrating.

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Participant
Jul 6, 2025 12:42 AM UTC

I have the same issue, it is so annoying, I cannot work like this. Did someone find a solution?

 

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