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Update (Dec 2024): With the new release, it is no longer necessary to perform Generative Remove Operations prior to Cropping.
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@BK_2069: " if it's truly remove... why does it so frequently add in other random things vs. work to find ways to cleanly remove distracting objects...."
This is a good example of the simple rule that you must select all of an object, including shadows and reflections. You selected some but not all of the shadows and reflections. When you select those, including the faint shadows cast by side lighting and the reflection below the athlete's leg, Remove quickly does a good job:
If you don't select all the shadows and reflections, then Remove will generate a replacement that tries to cast them.
Note that, due to a bug in the LR user interface that Adobe considers "as designed", you must first make a selection that contiguously selects all of the object. Then use Subtract to remove parts you don't want replaced -- in this case, I removed the leg between the upper and lower reflections. If instead you try to make separate, disconnected selections with Add, Remove treats those as completely separate, as if you had done one at a time, and it won't work here.
This and other guidelines are covered in more detail in this article, definitely worth the five-minute read:
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@Neil Waving: "Why is Lightroom telling me that I'm not conected to the internet when I definitely am connected?"
Sometimes firewalls and anti-malware / anti-virus utilities incorrectly block some network requests from LR. Try these troubleshooting steps:
- Restart the computer.
- Temporarily disable all the firewall / anti-malware on your computer. If that solves the problem, then add a specific exclusion for LR to the firewall's rules.
- Connect to another network, preferably one serviced by a different ISP. E.g. a Wifi connection of a neighbor, a coffee shop, work, or your phone's hotspot. Sometimes the routers in these networks block LR's requests, especially in authoritarian countries like China.
- Try relaunching the Finder -- start Finder, click the Finder menu, and do Quit Finder. Someone reported that this solved this problem for him.
Please let us know which of these work and which don't.
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@Anna35287185zjd4: "it stopped working for me after updates. Not removing any objects, never. I tried multiple photos, deleting small things, results are useless now. It wasn't the case in the past."
After clicking Remove, make sure the Opacity slider is set to 100:
Many people have reported that the updates changed their Opacity sliders.
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@henke51366242: "I keep trying to remove a post and a person within a simple background (e.g. post with clear blue sky background or person on a bridge) yet the removed object remains as a ghost image. ... I updated that AI settings on that photo but the problem persists."
After clicking Remove, make sure the Opacity slider is set to 100:
Applying Remove on top of AI masking (e.g. a Sky mask, corrected by doing Update AI Settings) and Opacity sliders set to less than 100 are the primary causes of ghost images. But if this doesn't help, then rather than play twenty questions, share the original photo and your develop settings here. In Library, select the photo and do the menu command Metadata > Save Metadata To File. Then upload photo file (and if it's raw, its .xmp sidecar file) to Wetransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive, or other free service and post the sharing link here.
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