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.

[JAHEUK]

in 50% of my photo's doing DENOISE after Generative Remove, I get some strange distortions !!

[Erik Bloodaxe]

So, it's Denoise first then!

[Bowserb]

A step history in this tool would be great.  I remove something, and that makes me want to remove something else, and then something else.  At some point I have a remove fail and need to undo just that step, but unfortunately Ctrl-Z affects all the steps.  I found I could leave the tool and then return, and Ctrl-Z seems to apply to the latest step, but not consistently.

[Erik Bloodaxe]

You can simply select the troublesome pin and hit delete.

[Flawless_enthusiasm98A7]

just tried my first remove task.  the gen fill tool worked well to remove a chain link fence.  looks decent!

[martinec6979757]

Bonjour, j'ai suivi le procédé, j'ai voulu supprimer une chaise et ça n'a pas fonctionné, à chaque fois il propose une chaise différente???

En tous cas l'info est plutôt positive mais pas encore au top. 

[photo__rob]

I just used the tool to remove a leaf that partially covered a person's face in a garden setting portrait.. The foliage was a thin line intersecting above the ear through the eyebrow and into the area near the eye. A task that would have taken me a great amount time previously completed in a few minutes. 

Robert Knapp

Photographer 
www.modernartphotograph.com

[David26834417hilp]

Wanted object removing completely and no subsitute. Subsitute image placed in picture.

[Guest]

good

[Phototopos]

It would be nice if it could simulate the existing noise and sharpness in the image, at some images is working just fine but in others you get a blurred soft with no noise matching substitution

[Aleh Alisevich]

what about removing wires? still very bad working. people and others are ok 

[Santiago37603762tndr]

[Jo219920428mxf]

Wanted object removing completely and no subsitute. Subsitute image placed in picture.
That happens in as well in CameraRaw as in Lightroom Classic

[Erik Bloodaxe]

Confirmed, though doesn't always happen. I removed a person and got a dog!

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Substitutes come most often from not removing Cast Shadows, Reflections and non-contiguous parts of the object being removed.  If you get a phantom, you likely need to examine your removed item for those items. 

If the AI sees a shadow outside the remove area, it will try to provide an object to cast it...

[HpFoto]

Ich habe gemerkt das die KI an Kritischen Punkten einfach zu überlisten ist. Einfach den Pinsel etwas größer machen als das zu entfernende Objekt und dann arbeiten lassen. Und so arbeite ich durch bis nur nich ein kleiner Teil da ist. Den rest kann ich in Photoshop kaschieren. Ich weiß das ich mit Beta arbeite, aber damit kann man helfen es besser zu programmieren.

[Jo219920428mxf]

Generative Remove funktioniert nicht, Auswahl wird ersetzt staat entfernt.

Das gescheht bei mir sowohl in Camera Raw(16.3) als auch in Lightroom Classic(13.3).

[Christian Gnad]

For me, what would really be a game changer in workflow would be to have a direct button "Remove tool" function in Lightroom similar to the one in Photoshop Beta. I shoot a lot of Still Photograpy, and having the ability to quickly in LrC make small corrections on someones face, to remove a Boom operators micro, a cable on the ground of the set, etc., would help me work faster. For more elaborate and rare situations i don´t mind that much having to jump between LrC and Ps.

[Christian Gnad]

However it works fine in most situations! Thank you guys

[Toinbach]

Yesterday I took a photo looking out to sea fro Lands End, Cornwall.  On developing it today I found a blurry hair, shaped like an upside-down "U", that went from the top of a rocky outcrop into the sky and then crossed the horizon back into the sea. I erased it using the generative remove tool.  Fantastic result that shows no evidence of anything other than sea, rock and sky ever being there.  I also erased a white van parked next to the "First and Last House in England".  Full marks to programmers!

[Santiago37603762tndr]

Como hago para conectar LR a la web, tengo internet estable y no puedo utilizar el borrador generativo por que sale error alguien que me ayude porfavor

[Christian Gnad]

If you're working on mac, it's strange, because i never had to set anything for Ps or LrC to have internet connection. If you're on windows i don't know.

[timb39197274]

I have tried this a couple of times and find it has left a shadow of the area I was trying to remove - not impressed so far

[Wes Duenkel]

YES. I have this same issue. This is new. Prevous Generative AI didn't do this!