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Update (Dec 2024): With the new release, it is no longer necessary to perform Generative Remove Operations prior to Cropping.
Update (August 2025) With the new release, the Generative Remove Engine has been updated.
See this video for details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwpUX4b6igY
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A simple scenario in removing a black cable in front of the sky results in just replacing the black line by a white. Several update cycles could not fix the behaviour. This is very weak. If this was the first version with generative remove OK, but this is not the case anymore.
Lightroom 14.2.
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LR does a good job of removing the wire from your screenshot:
Most likely you've applied Remove on top of a Sky mask. Do Settings > Update AI Settings to recompute the Sky mask. See this short article for Adobe's recommended order in which to apply editing operations:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/
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@valentinosh: "i do it to remove a face and in the place it generates new faces...lots of time those stuf doesnt work, creating lots more of work"
If you select a face but leave parts of the body unselected, even parts that are disconnected, Remove will generate a replacement that tries to match that body. Select all of the body along with the face.
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.
"why not put a tab , with the old options ? like cloning and stuff"
The older Clone, Heal, and Content-Aware modes are still available:
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Often, Remove doesn't match tones well in flat tonal areas, as in your example. Sometimes you can fix that by selecting a larger area:
(You can get rid of the newly added wall outlet with a second application of Remove.)
Other techniques for ameliorating a tone mismatch: make the selection more raggedy; use short strokes with the Heal tool around the boundary to get better feathering; use the Brush mask and set Texture, Clarity, and Sharpness low to blur the area.
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@CedricSimon: "I am trying to understand why my generative remove attempts are sometimes very blurry compared to the rest of the photo, even with small patches. It was the case in all my session yesterday. For some reason, today, simply regenerating the same spots gives better results (but still blurry)."
Generative AI Remove often doesn't match the surrounding noise/grain with replacement patches. Sometimes running Denoise first significantly improves the match. If that doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot) and attach a screenshot showing what you've selected for Remove. That will let us see more precisely what the issue might be.
"I have the feeling Photoshop does better here, at least, is more consistent."
PS and LR use the same Adobe Firefly Generative AI Remove, though their user interfaces are different, and they have different other remove modes (e.g. Heal, Clone, and Content-Aware in LR). So when comparing Generative Remove in the two apps, in LR make sure you've got Remove mode selected with Use Generative AI selected:
and in PS make sure Mode: Generative AI On is selected:
If you encounter an example where Generative Remove behaves differently in the two apps, it would be good to post an example here (with unmodified, full-resolution JPEGs). To date, no one has posted an example where the two apps differ.
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