This post applies to Camera Raw. Post Lightroom Feedback here
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: RikkFlohr
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:
Denoise
Heal (includes Generative AI Remove)
Crop (includes traditional Cropping, Lens Correction, Transform, or any operation changing the geometry of the image)
Edit
AI Selective edits
If you deviate from that, you may see the removed object remain as a ghost image. If this occurs, you will have to use Update AI Settings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Before I start, this is GAMING CHANGING. Great work!
Can we use prompts and control the generative remove to improve this? In addition, can we also have an option to use the same auto-masking as the adjustment brushes so we can be more specific on our generative removal? Here's a scenario: I have a group picture and only 1 pair of eyes isn't looking or have their eyes closed. I like to select the mask of his head or face only and prompt "redirect eyes to left" or "keep eyes open". Maybe it's not generative remove it and have it under the adjustment brush but I would love to see it incorporated.
I found that it works fairly well but to remove branches in a tree when photographing birds, it often will leave part or all of the branch or wll not work at all.
when adjusting geometry and you get little slivers of non exisitng photo sections, could the generative remove generate additional photo to fill the gaps? / work on transparency.
Thanks so much for including this feature in Camera Raw. It has really sped up my workflow! I've been having difficulty with objects being replaced as opposed to being removed, but I see the update above so will give that a try. Thanks for such an elegant application.
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