Best way to clean electricity poles and wires in outdoor photos?

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
November 9, 2025
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Hi everyone,
I’m working on a few landscape photos where electricity poles and wires are crossing the frame. I normally remove them manually using the Clone Stamp or Content-Aware Fill, but it gets slow when wires are long or too close to the subject.

Just wanted to ask what tools or workflow other editors prefer for this.
Is there any faster method or a trick that gives cleaner results with fewer visible edges?

Thanks!

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Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

As others have mentioned, the remove tool with wires works fairly well, but like anything, there are issues. I find it best to create a blank layer, then use the remove tool with all layers sampled, so it's easier to fix some of the automated goofs, as for the actual poles, the remove tool works well, but you manually have to select them.

Glenn 8675309

Legend

The remove tool, or the gerative fill stuff- roughly draw a box and click generate (you can type in "remove" in the prompt box if it makes you all warm and fuzzy)

Conrad_C

Community Expert

In the early days of Photoshop AI, that was a clever workaround for removing things…select and hit Generative Fill without a prompt. However, over time it was realized that too often, Generative Fill was inserting unwanted content instead of completely removing something. Adobe decided that the solution was to split off “generative remove” as a separate model from “generative fill” because they’re really opposite goals. To better serve the goal of generative removal, Adobe added the Remove tool and button, and has been improving and refining the Remove model over the past year.

Today, it’s recommended that if you want to create something new, use Generative Fill, but if you want to remove something and leave a clean believable background, use the generative Remove tool. Or in the Contextual Task Bar, click the Remove button instead of the Generative Fill button.

In this specific example where they want to remove wires, the Remove tool’s new Wires and Cables option was designed to look for that specfic type of content and remove it, so it should work much better than the old “try to trick Generative Fill into doing it” method.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Have you tried the new one-click Wires and Cables option for the Remove tool? It might not be perfect, but it’s often good enough that there isn’t much left to clean up. However, it might leave the poles, but you might be able to take care of those quickly by manually brushing with the Remove tool.

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/remove-wires-and-cables-from-photos-instantly-in-photoshop-2025/

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emmataylorAuthor

Participant

I usually deal with the same issue in landscape photos. The fastest method that works for me is using the Spot Healing Brush with “Content-Aware” turned on. For longer wires, the Patch Tool gives cleaner results because you can control the texture better.

Sometimes I also zoom out a bit before applying the tool—it helps Photoshop blend the background more naturally. It’s still not one-click perfect, but this combo removes most poles and wires way faster than cloning everything manually.

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Tallmanirl

Known Participant

Thanks for that! 😀

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