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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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Well, the generative removal tool does not seem to work on power lines. Photo of a setting sun (so lots of orange); power lines with no background other than the orange sky) - attempts to select the power lines themselves proved fruitless. After a few seconds of "thinking" the power lines were not altered in any way.
Running on a MacBook M3 Pro - 18GB RAM, Sonoma 14.5.1
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@f8lee: "After a few seconds of "thinking" the power lines were not altered in any way."
Working with the low-resolution export you attached, I can easily remove the power lines one by one:
Since that export stripped all the clueful metadata, I can't give precise remedies, but things to check:
- Make sure the Opacity slider is 100.
- When you select a line, make sure you select the entire line -- if you leave any bits unselected, Remove will generate a matching replacement.
- Detect Objects often doesn't work very well with lines -- uncheck it.
- If you had previously applied Crop, Transform, or Lens Corrections, undo those, apply Remove, and then redo them. Remove will match the unselected cropped-out pixels on the edges otherwise.
But if this doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, including all metadata.
When removing objects against a uniform sky, Remove sometimes doesn't do a good job of blending in the replacement. I got better-blended replacements by making the edges of the selected ragged and selecting the lower three lines in one selection:
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@f8lee, also, the older Content-Aware Remove does a fine job removing the lines, doing one short segment at a time. To do Content-Aware Remove, select Mode: Remove and uncheck Use Generative AI.
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@Golden Lens Photography: "The removal of undesirable objects has become much worse, now the entire selected removal space is blurred/stained."
This issue isn't new to LR 14 -- lots of similar examples from LR 13. There are two possible causes of this:
1. You've applied Remove on top of an AI mask, e.g. a Sky mask. Do the menu command Settings > Update AI Settings to recompute the mask. In general, Adobe's designed workflow is to apply Remove first, then masking.
2. Sometimes Generative Remove doesn't do a good job of blending the replacement against uniform backgrounds like skies. You can often work around this by making the selection even more ragged or much larger (e.g. to include a much larger part of the sky).
If the issue with this photo is this second reason, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, to provide actionable feedback for Adobe.
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