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

colint81730785

Participant

The issue I'm having is that I want to remove multiple different items, but the tool is not keeping the little circle / target available for use between clicks / selections.

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@colint81730785: "The issue I'm having is that I want to remove multiple different items, but the tool is not keeping the little circle / target available for use between clicks / selections."

Are you using LR Mobile, LR Desktop, or LR Classic when you experience this?

curt.gallery

Known Participant

So weird, it works great in Photoshop. I remove a powerline tower in lightroom and it often creates a new one instead? How does this get out into the public? It is called the remove tool. It is not call the firefly image generation tool. I remove telephone polls, or try to, and it instead creates different ones. Is this going to be fixed any time soon I wonder? When it works it is lovely but why would they even allow it to generate new objects? Bizzare.

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@curt.gallery: "I remove a powerline tower in lightroom and it often creates a new one instead?"

Uncheck Detect Objects -- it doesn't work very well, especially with long, skinny objects and along the edges of photos. See this short 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 (not a screenshot). With nearly every one of the many dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

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Whispering_worldview8237

Participant

I just used Generative AI to remove the partial image of a woman in a white shirt with sunglasses on her head standing in a line of cars. Instead of removing her and generating new pixels of the cars, it created an entirely new Human Being! A smiling, posing, young man in a white shirt! What the???

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@Whispering_worldview8237: "I just used Generative AI to remove the partial image of a woman in a white shirt with sunglasses on her head standing in a line of cars. Instead of removing her and generating new pixels of the cars, it created an entirely new Human Being!"

Make sure you select all parts of the woman, even if they're disconnected, and remove any shadows or reflections. Otherwise, Remove will try to match what's left. See this short article for details:
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 (not a screenshot). With nearly every one of the many dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

Riju241992

Participating Frequently

I have Purchased version of Adobe lightroom Mobile version. Android.

Generative AI and object removal feature gives worst results than ever. Free image editors can achive far better than lightroom. Why should I purchase this waste tool for such a big cost per year. Can anybody explain? See the attached photo and you will underatand the reason for my frustration. WTF. This is 2025 and adobe is going downwards or what😤

C.Cella

Inspiring

@Riju241992 what were you trying to remove ?

Riju241992

Participating Frequently

A tree trunk in the background

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Koko B

Participant

I'd love to use it for the set of archival images I'm cleaning up. Unfortunately, It doesn't seem to be able to render/match the grain. PS The new performance improvement in 14.2 seems to make the gen faster. It also seems to dramatically slow the heal tool over 60 or so heals

colinm39398726

Participant

a great new release takes just a couple of minutes compared to having to keep switching to photopshop and back and still not getting as good results

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ed_0993

Participant

Why does the remove tool work well for a while, then stop working? This happened to me tonight as I'm editing important shots, and it's happened in the past. Very strange and frustrating.

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@ed_0993: "Why does the remove tool work well for a while, then stop working?"

Does it immediately work again after you restart LR?

roberth62521040

Inspiring

Updated my programs today. Applied changes and remove objects from my conference photos today. applied adaptive portrait changes. Looked at them again and the changes were deleted and that I needed to update them again. Waste of time because I have to have the photos loaded ASAP!

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@roberth62521040: "Applied changes and remove objects from my conference photos today. applied adaptive portrait changes. Looked at them again and the changes were deleted and that I needed to update them again."

To verify, are you seeing red dots next to "Basic", under the Remove tool icon, or both?

roberth62521040

Inspiring

Both - lrc. Sometime one or the other, other times both. Reapply, close
and the changes are gone.

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funny_MeadowB82D

Participant

Generative Remove is often incredible, truly. Sometimes it fails miserably, with more complex indoor scenes. Removed some people and objects from photos of a motocross event and it was amazing. Tried to do that with photos of a basketball game, results were mixed, and required extensive manual refinements. My main gripe is how it interprets the initial selection of object to be removed. It highlights the object, but adds a huge buffer of selection around the object. So big that it MUST be reduced manually for the Generative Remove to do its best job. I would like to see the AI behind this tool identify the objects I select more cleanly and require little to no manual adjustments to the selection before clicking remove. My phone can do this! I know it will likely work much better, but please get more teams on this! Great tool to be sure!!

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@funny_MeadowB82D: "My main gripe is how it interprets the initial selection of object to be removed. It highlights the object, but adds a huge buffer of selection around the object. So big that it MUST be reduced manually for the Generative Remove to do its best job."

I find it more productive simply to keep Detect Objects unchecked. As you've observed, it too often works poorly, and it fails completely with skinny objects (poles and lines) and with objects near the edges of the photo.

CristaLee

Participant

I’ve encountered significant issues with the removal tool in Lightroom. Despite using the latest hardware (M4 chip), the tool failed to remove any of the selected elements. This has been extremely frustrating, especially given the expectations for performance on this setup. It is Feb 13th 2025. Brutal Adobe

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@CristaLee: "the tool failed to remove any of the selected elements."

After clicking Remove, make sure the Opacity slider is 100. A likely bug in LR sometimes sets it to 0.