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

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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The Photography team is sharing an early look at Generative Remove, which makes it easier to remove unwanted objects and distractions, even on complex backgrounds, with a simple brush stroke. Generative Remove is powered by Firefly AI.

How to use Generative Remove on a desktop:

• You can find Generative Remove under the newly renamed Remove panel (aka “Heal”).
• Make sure the “generative AI” checkbox is enabled before you start brushing (note: when unchecked, Lightroom will use Content-Aware Remove to fill your brushed spots). 
• By default, you will be given a moment to refine your selection with an add or subtract brush. Remember to include shadows for a more accurate result! You can also skip this step by holding down ‘CTRL’ on windows or ‘CMD’ on mac as you finish your brush stroke. 
• Once you’re ready to apply and have accepted the terms, Generative Remove will use Firefly AI to remove your distractions and intelligently fill in the space that’s left by the removed objects. 
• Note: stable internet connection is required to use this feature.
• Generative Remove also lets you choose from multiple variations, so you can pick the one you like best, giving you full creative control. 

Please give it a try and share feedback and/or report variations in this community forum. It would greatly help to include details like which app you are using (i.e., Lightroom Classic or Camera Raw) and other system details. Our team will continually monitor this thread to track issues to improve the future experience.

Lisa Ngo: Lightroom Product Manager
Posted by: Rikk Flohr 

Update (Dec 2024):  With the new release, it is no longer necessary to perform Generative Remove Operations prior to Cropping. 

Update:

Here are some tips if you are having issues with the feature replacing your object instead of removing it. 

• Enlarge your selection - if your brush stroke is too tight, you will have unexpected results.
• Remember that removing an object means painting over it, its shadow, its reflection, and any non-contiguous pieces. If you leave behind a shadow, a reflection, or a disconnected piece (e.g., a hand on a shoulder), the AI will attempt to create something to cast the shadow, reflect, or complete the unbrushed discontinuous item. 

The recommended order for applying edits is:

1. Denoise 
2. Heal (includes Generative AI Remove)
3. Crop (includes traditional Cropping, Lens Correction, Transform, or any operation changing the geometry of the image, including round-tripping to PS to use Gen-Expand)
4. Global Edits
5. AI Selective edits (Sky, Person, etc)

If you deviate from that, you may see the removed object remain a ghost image. If this occurs, you will have to use Update AI Settings.

[DeAnn37637792h6w6]

Object removal worked, but left a big dark patch, which had to be removed with the radial gradient to lighten it.

[Wes Duenkel]

YES! I HAVE THIS SAME PROBLEM!

[hajimeo92377158]

生成AIを使用して人物を削除してくて新機能を試みているのですが、

「生成削除に失敗しました」

「サービスが応答していません。インターネットを確認して、再試行してください。」

というダイアログが表示され、機能しません。

ネットには繋がっています。

原因を教えてください。

[Maximilian376477290y0f]

The feature worked amazingly and the content generation is pretty much spot on, saves a lot of pictures from photobombs and unwanted obstruction. A bit of an improvement might be the ability to tweak the basic lighting (exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, etc.) to the generative fill mask. Most of the mask seem to come out slightly darker than it's suppose to, 90% it's not so visible unless zooming in on it but occasionally it does stick out like a sore thumb.

[Wes Duenkel]

Yup. Same problem here.

[jim32650877pzu5]

i have tried several times on several raw images and the object does not disapear. After I hit apply the object remains with the line I placed around it remaining. 

[Nshowalter]

I've used the Generative AI tool to remove some objects in LRC. When it syncs to LR the objects remain.

[dave gorke]

When using "Generative AI" at first, I discovered that I could change some of my vertciaI images OK and on some  it would not work properly.  I discovered in my camera I can set an option to rotate images, "ON" or "OFF"

If I have it "off" in the camera and import a vertical image into LR, then rotate it in LR, "Generative AI" will not work properly.  If I rotate back to its original state, "AI" will work, then I can rotate it back after the change.

If I have it "on" in the camera and import a vertical image into LR,  then "Generative AI" will work properly.

So far my experimenting with this new feature has worked well.

[Saipanman]

I takes forever to despot a photo if you have a bunch of spots. The Generative AI is great, but the Despot shoulc have it own Menu. Just a thought.

[Erik Bloodaxe]

Simply uncheck the provided box for using AI. Spot removal function is then as it was.

[JOKERBCN]

La herramient me parece genial, pero creo que habria que mejorar, el proceso previo de seleccion por algo mas preciso.

[Adrian Zussino]

La herramienta anda muy bien, la frutilla del postre sería poder hacer elecciones con una herramienta como el lazo de PS

[The Litt Man]

Works great about 70 % of the time I think it is ready for full use as. I do think it needs to work as a prompt similar to photoshop instead of a general remove feature.

[Kazw14]

The spot removal in Lightroom is awful! None of the options work as they did previously. 

[Erik Bloodaxe]

In my experience, if you switch off the option to use AI, everything works exactly as before. No issues detected.

[CharlesSturge]

...::: HELP :::... HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE? I'm being overwhelmed by Adobe emails.  Should an 'unsubscribe' option exist to comply with GDPR?

[CharlesSturge]

I found it. No replys needed.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

@CharlesSturge  This should be on every email you receive: 

"You may manage your notification settings or unsubscribe from all Adobe Community e-mails."

[purplepunkdaisy]

Love everything about it, except I keep getting a gpu acceleration error, glitching, and full on lock up. My workflow is completely messed up and I cannot figure out how to roll back to the previous verson of Camera Raw 😞 Adobe, please make it easier to roll back camera raw!! 

[Loren Rye]

Extremely pleased with the results so far on removing softbox reflections from eyeglasses. Lighting reflections on eyeglasses are extremely troublesome, and this improves substantially on my previous workflow which involves masking/color matching/dehazing to minimize the reflection. The attached image isn't the most extreme case I've encountered, but it did save a LOT of time and frustration and cloning. 

[Loren Rye]

I should add, there's a missing line in the eyelid on the AI version, which will need to be fixed in a subsequent step--but it's still not as bad as it was. Using Photoshop/Camera RAW. 

[Kerstin37744506but4]

This is terrible. I'm spending way more time trying to remove things than I was before. Not to mention the clone and heal tool are trash too now. 12/10 do not reccomend.

[HectorC]

Nice results but takes too long to generate. Wish it would leverage the GPU. Or even the CPU. Didn't seem any of it was being used while generating. I assume it is processed in the cloud?

[bernardwerner]

Especially when working with snow and cloudless skies, Generative AI needs refinement in getting the luminosity, saturation, and textures spot on. Textures can end up blurry and color shades can be off by a couple points in each rgb channel.

[Helensd]

I was quite impressed with how it removed top right moss covered distracting tree and replaced it with canopy branches and leaves