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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
August 13, 2024
Question

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

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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Participant
October 25, 2026

This feature feels like useless these days… I am trying to remove a light source (light bulb) in the background and this does not do anything other than changing the shape of the light a bit, not even trying to remove the light/bulb.

Not able to attach a screenshot here.

Also in photoshop, when I try to remove a similar object, it degrades quality of the whole photo

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Participant
October 23, 2026

Fingers need work

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Participant
October 21, 2026

I have to remove studio lights and soft boxes from images with black backgrounds. Instead of removing the light, it just replaces it with another beam of light. I feel like with the solid black background it should just match that and make it all black but it tries to generate something new.

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Known Participant
October 19, 2026

in last week I noticed aboslutely terrible degradation of generative remove tool in LR…….does ugly results…...this didnt happened before! What is the reason? 

 

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Participant
October 19, 2026

yes, is horrible

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Participant
October 18, 2026

I find that the detect objects is very poor.  Im trying for example to remove a white rope across some dark water and rocks.  Whatever I try it cannot detect the rope just a very broad area

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johnrellis
Legend
October 18, 2026

I disabled Detect Objects a long time ago -- sometimes it works well but more often not.

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Participant
October 16, 2026

please create an option for generative reomve where it ONLY removes and does not attempt to replace what you’re trying to remove with a poorly rendered version of the same thing. If I’m trying to remove the reflection of a four sided softbox it’s not because I wanted an 8 sided softbox in it’s place… 

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Participant
October 14, 2026

After changing perspective corrections, the patch cannot be used correctly; it appears in a different location.

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Participant
October 14, 2026

In future Lightroom updates, please add a feature to the Generative Fill tool that allows a generated element to be replicated across multiple photos—ensuring the generated section is identical across a series of similar shots—or add the ability to use a detail from another photo as a reference "patch" to guide the generation process.

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Participant
October 10, 2026

It is missing to say what it should replace. For example i selected a mouth from a guest because he had his tongue out for some reason. AI analyzed it and created pictures with a tongue and a mouth but as i could not say “remove mouth”. I had multiple situation where it was just bad and i thought at this time, where AI is so good now, Lightroom just keeps to getting worse. It gives competitors big advantages. For Example Imagen offers really good AI Editing. When does it come to Lightroom?

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Participant
October 9, 2026

I am finding that the remove AI generative options cannot properly remove a powerline from and image with a cloudy background.  None of the 3 generative options successfully removes the wire. Each option only lightens the wire.

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johnrellis
Legend
October 9, 2026

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​@cheryl26437278jwh2 None of the 3 generative options successfully removes the wire. Each option only lightens the wire.

 

It may be that you applied Remove on top of an AI mask, in which case the AI Edit Status button will be yellow:

 

Click the button and do Update to recompute the mask.

 

If this doesn’t help, then attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unedited photo.

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