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P: Generative Remove Feedback (Lr Classic & Lr Eco)

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August 13, 2024
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This post applies to Lightroom Classic and the Lightroom Ecosystem products.

Camera Raw 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.

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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NetHawk

Known Participant

In general, the tool is impressive. What I struggle with is that if I want to remove a hydrant, for example, it gets replaced by another type of hydrant instead of being removed altogether. I tried all sorts of tricks, but in the end I had to resort to Photoshop.

johnrellis

Genius

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@NetHawk: "if I want to remove a hydrant, for example, it gets replaced by another type of hydrant instead of being removed altogether. "

With your attached JPEG, Remove quickly removed the hydrant:

The photo's metadata indicates you had cropped the original raw along the bottom. Remove looks at all the photo's pixels, including those cropped out by Crop, Lens Corrections, and Transform. So undo the crop, apply Remove, then redo the crop.

See this article for more details on this and other tips for removing objects more reliably:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

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bonnieleek

Participant

It started GREAT .. then instead of removing the objects it just kept them in place and trhe "variations" had shaddows of them. Now I can't get it to work anymore. Grrr

johnrellis

Genius

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@bonnieleek: "instead of removing the objects it just kept them in place and trhe "variations" had shaddows of them. "

Make sure the Opacity slider is set to 100:

You'll have to make at least one brush stroke to see the slider.

If that doesn't help, see this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

fd31069616

Participant

It seems like the AI Remove isn't as good at the Beta version. When removing people along the edge of a photo, the AI creates a horiffic non-human replacement instead of simply showing stairs, or a fence, or a whatever is in the background. It seems like most people will use this tool to remove other people, so it seems counterintuitive for the AI to try (and I mean try) to add it's own version of what it thinks people look like. There should be a toggle where we let the AI add people or make sure it doesn't replace the remove with AI generated people.

johnrellis

Genius

@fd31069616: "When removing people along the edge of a photo..."

Remove looks at pixels that have been cropped out by Crop, Transform, and Lens Corrections. So undo those commands, do Remove, then reapply them. If that doesn't help, you may be editing a raw from a camera that automatically crops out a border along the edges of the photo, and Remove looks at those cropped-out pixels too; see here for how to workaround that bug:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/generative-remove-doesn-t-ignore-the-hidden-border-pixels-automatically-cropped-by-camera-raw/m-p/14925572

If this still doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

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jacobsquires

Participant

This latest version in demonstrably worse than before. I'm trying to "REMOVE" a person and Generative AI keeps filling it in with another person. You REALLY NEED a button to say fill with surrounding background and a checkbox no People, or Pets.

C.Cella

Inspiring

Lots of users are saying the older version was better.

I have checked and unelss I am mistakenly Gen Remove in LrC 13 and LrC 14 is using the same ModelVersion(s)

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johnrellis

Genius

@C.Cella: "unelss I am mistakenly Gen Remove in LrC 13 and LrC 14 is using the same ModelVersion(s)"

Running Any Filter on my LR 13 and LR 14 catalogs shows that the Generative AI Model Version did change between LR 13 and 14:

- Almost all photos in my LR 13 catalog use version 1.0.5-beta.1-1.2_1.2-8c2cea4-0.1.27.1r16.2.

- Older photos in my LR 14 catalog use version 1.0.5-beta.1-1.2_1.2-8c2cea4-0.1.27.1r16.2, while photos edited recently use 1.0.5-beta.1-1.2_1.2-8c2cea4-a6.

Interestingly, there are a few photos in the LR 13 catalog using the newer model on 10/2/2024 and the older model on 10/10/2024. Since the model version actually used may be determined by the Firely servers and not the LR app, perhapst Firefly jumped the gun and used the newer model for a bit around 10/2 and then backed up to the older model until the LR 14 release on 10/14.

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In addition to the model changing, Detect Objects changed as well, using a larger border around the detected objects.

However, without seeing actual examples, it is premature to conclude that the change in model or Detect Objects is the cause of the complaints. So far, only one person has uploaded a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original showing bad behavior, and that turned out to be an errant Opacity slider.

So until more people experiencing issues upload full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified originals, I don't think Adobe will likely pay much attention.

MichaelN0815

Known Participant

LRc 14.0.1 ; WIndows 11 23H2

scrolling through pictures with AI masks increases GPU VRAM use very fast. Reaching 100% slows down LR. Only restart of LR helps for short time.

johnrellis

Genius

@MichaelN0815: "scrolling through pictures with AI masks increases GPU VRAM use very fast."

Most problems with LR's AI commands are caused by older, buggy graphics drivers. Try updating your graphics driver by going directly to the manufacturer's web site:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html#solution-4

If that doesn't help, please copy/paste here the entire contents of the LR menu command Help > System Info -- that will let us see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running.

SADDLE-UP

Participating Frequently

Sometimes amazing, sometimes crap.
I wax and wane between love it and hate it.
AI is human, it can be seriously dumb 😞

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jguo114

Participant

Please bring back the old Lighroom Classic. This new update with the generative AI is terrible. As others have said, the remove tool's Detect objects feature auto-extends the selection way too much. It then takes painstaking work to try to reduce the selection. The generative AI feature is not even as good as it had been in the previous version before this update as it either replaces the object with unwanted background or introduces new fringing that was not previously an issue.

Overall, this update has substantially slowed my workflow, and I am now spending 5x the time I used to editing my photos... and the results aren't even as good!

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krakozavr@gmail.com

Participating Frequently

Generative remove tool:
usually it works well. But sometimes, it continuously suggests different versions of objects I'm trying to remove, even with multiple attempts of regeneration. For example, it may again and again draw a different person in the background, instead of removing the original one (and in many cases, the new "person" looks more defined and recognizable than the original). Or just now, when I tried to remove some metal frame from the forest setting, it redrawn it many times into something different but still a metal frame 🙂 Modifications of the existing selection don't help.

The only way to make it do right job is to completely remove the selection and start over.
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johnrellis

Genius

@krakozavr@gmail.com: "sometimes, it continuously suggests different versions of objects I'm trying to remove, even with multiple attempts of regeneration."

See this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

K

krakozavr@gmail.com

Participating Frequently

Thank you for the link, I found it already and read it. I figured these tricks on my own already, but sometimes (I can admit, on rare occasions) it doesn't help and modifications of the existing selection don't help, too. In these cases, if I delete the original selection completely and start over, it works properly even if I recreate the original selection in details.

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Meteor_Freak

Participant

Removed object, but left a circle,that appeared like a dust spot.

johnrellis

Genius

@Meteor_Freak: "Removed object, but left a circle,that appeared like a dust spot."

Are you applying Remove on top of an AI mask (e.g. Sky mask)? If so, do Settings > Update AI Settings.

If that doesn't help, thensee this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

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ctcbox

Participant

Oct 19, 2024 Installed LRC V 14.01 yesterday. I have been working on a particular set of 150 photos and LRC asked to Update All in your AI Removal tool for many of my photos ( I didn't look outside my small group of 150.). After accepting my update when I return to some of the photos LRC is asking to Update All again. I have also had to Update All for my masks, although usuall only once. I then went through EACH of the 150 and clicked on Updare All as necessary. Now, a day later, some of the 150 are asking for Update All. One would not accept the Update All and the button remains in the AI Removal box. It appears you have a buggy update. Many others seem to be having problems as well. I tried to go back to 13.75 but you changed the catalog without a backup copy and I am stuck with your problematic 14.01. Please help me do something to my catalog so I can go back to the old version. Thank you for your help.

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ctcbox

Participant

I just read the post above mine. I have been getting striping as well. They usually show up in in heavily processed images usually in dark blue areas when printed. I have printed on several printers including professional services and the stripes are still there i.e. it's not my printer... They don't show up on my monitor just when printed.

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