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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
August 13, 2024
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P: Generative Remove Feedback (Camera Raw)

This post applies to Camera Raw.
Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Ecosystem feedback can be found here.
Previous Early Access Feedback can be found here.
 
Generative Remove makes it easier to remove unwanted objects and distractions with a simple gesture, even on complex backgrounds. For more accurate results, be sure to include the object's shadow in your selection and/or expand its size. 
 
Detect Objects uses AI to find the objects underneath a brushed area. The masked areas will now appear larger than the Early Access version of this feature. You can also circle objects for quicker selection now. 
 
We have also updated the spot selection experience to make it easier to manage variations, switch the fill type, refine the selection area, or re-generate as needed. 
 
Batch updating is also now supported for Generative Remove spots. 

As Generative AI analyzes portions of the image that have been cropped out, Camera Raw has the ability to toggle Show Uncropped Image is now available to guide you in your Generative Remove selection. 
 
Try out the latest updates and share your feedback with us here. Please also include the following details in your post: 
  • App version
  • System details
  • Example image(s) if you wish to share

Our team continually monitors this thread to track issues for future improvement. Thanks!
 
Lisa Ngo: Lightroom Product Manager

 

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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Rikk Flohr-RetiredCorrect answer
December 12, 2024

Update (Dec 2024):  With the new release, it is no longer necessary to perform Generative Remove Operations prior to Cropping. 
Update (August 2025) With the new release, the Generative Remove Engine has been updated. 
See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwpUX4b6igY 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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Ash Mills Photography
Known Participant
December 2, 2024

It used to be possible to change what type of Remove was being applied to a given Remove spot.  It seems you can't switch the mode of a spot any more?

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Erik Bloodaxe
Legend
December 3, 2024

This is still possible:

 

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December 2, 2024

my generative fill not Working on

lightroom classic  How To Slove ?

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Participant
November 25, 2024

I try to remove 2 of the 4 people in the photo, but it keeps replacing with some funny new characters...not being able to do the required job. In some photos it does an excellent job.  ?????

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einzelbild
Inspiring
November 25, 2024

The result is looking good but the grain is not matching the rest of the picture.

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Participant
November 14, 2024

o meu não está funcionando! já atualizei e nada

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Known Participant
November 14, 2024

I used "Select-Sky and then tried to replace the sky with a generative one, but the Generative Fill (not remove) kept altering the building, trees, roads also. This is in Photoshop Beta 26.2

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DhandaNot
Known Participant
November 14, 2024

Lightroom is unable to remove this cable. I tried a few times, but end result is that the cable stays there, no change!

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DhandaNot
Participant
November 11, 2024

Tried using this tool to remove limbs and grass surrounding a black bear cub...  After multiple issues, my screem turn solid orange!!! Press the escape key and returned me to main RAW screen and lost all edits!!! Not Good at all!

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Participant
November 8, 2024

My Generative had been working fine. But now its not working at all.

Wayne

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Participant
January 5, 2025

Yeh, I am now having the same issue since the new update. It is saying "the system administrator isn't allowing access to this feature right now. Please contact them for more information." What's going on? Cheers

 

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Participant
October 31, 2024

I tried to remove cars and it only gave me more cars for all three versions

 

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Participant
July 23, 2025

Same here. Or it crerates something entirly new. Remove a box, get a chair.

 

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