P: New AI-powered Generative Remove (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

This post applies to Lightroom Classic and the Lightroom Ecosystem products.
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The Lightroom team is sharing an early look at Generative Remove, which makes it easier to remove unwanted objects and distractions, even on complex backgrounds, with a simple brush stroke. Generative Remove is powered by Firefly AI.

How to use Generative Remove on a desktop:

• You can find Generative Remove under the newly renamed Remove panel (aka “Heal”).
• Make sure the “generative AI” checkbox is enabled before you start brushing (note: when unchecked, Lightroom will use Content-Aware Remove to fill your brushed spots). 
• By default, you will be given a moment to refine your selection with an add or subtract brush. Remember to include shadows for a more accurate result! You can also skip this step by holding down ‘CTRL’ on windows or ‘CMD’ on mac as you finish your brush stroke. 
• Once you’re ready to apply and have accepted the terms, Generative Remove will use Firefly AI to remove your distractions and intelligently fill in the space that’s left by the removed objects. 
• Note: stable internet connection is required to use this feature.
• Generative Remove also lets you choose from multiple variations, so you can pick the one you like best, giving you full creative control. 
  
  Checkout the FAQ and Best Practices

Please give it a try and share feedback and/or report variations in this community forum. It would greatly help to include details like which app you are using (i.e., Lightroom Classic or Camera Raw) and other system details. Our team will continually monitor this thread to track issues to improve the future experience.

Lisa Ngo: Lightroom Product Manager
Posted by: Rikk Flohr 

Update (Dec 2024):  With the new release, it is no longer necessary to perform Generative Remove Operations prior to Cropping. 

Update:

Here are some tips if you are having issues with the feature replacing your object instead of removing it. 

• Enlarge your selection - if your brush stroke is too tight, you will have unexpected results.
• Remember that removing an object means painting over it, its shadow, its reflection, and any non-contiguous pieces. If you leave behind a shadow, a reflection, or a disconnected piece (e.g., a hand on a shoulder), the AI will attempt to create something to cast the shadow, reflect, or complete the unbrushed discontinuous item. You can avoid these issue by following the guidance provided in this linked tutorial. https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace

The recommended order for applying edits is:

1. Denoise 
2. Heal (includes Generative AI Remove)
3. Crop (includes traditional Cropping, Lens Correction, Transform, or any operation changing the geometry of the image, including round-tripping to PS to use Gen-Expand)
4. Global Edits
5. AI Selective edits (Sky, Person, etc)
   
   If you deviate from that, you may see the removed object remain as a ghost image. If this occurs, you will have to use Update AI Settings, which can be found under the Develop module 'Settings' menu.

[chbroyles88]

As a fine art photographer, I shoot almost exclusively nude images of the human body - none pornographic, albeit some are sensual in nature. Regardless, it would be great to be able to use the new generative AI features in Lightroom (and/or Photoshop, but especially Lightroom) to remove unwanted elements in the image.  For example if an area of the backdrop/background is distracting, I'd like to remove it.  However, due to Adobe's AI policy around nudity I'm unable to harness these capabilities.  I would understand if I was trying to GENERATE nudity, but I'm simply trying to edit out areas of the image that are NOT the (nude) subject.  Thus... these improvements in Lightroom are absolutley worthless to me as a photographer.  Adobe needs to differentiate between using AI to create harmful content versus using AI as a design tool.  I'd rather the technology not exist than for a corporation to control it's functionality completely - that ruins art and is contrary to the purpose that Adobe products once served.

[Lenkaland]

Excited for generative fill. A fantastic upgrade for editing. Right now, the white line surrounding my selection makes it hard to see how the fill integrates with the photo as a whole. Maybe a checkmark for Selection Boundary- off and on. Thank you for the hard work!

[Lenkaland]

Nevermind, I found the tool for selection choices. Solved my own question

[rdverb]

Using LrC on Win 10 - the remove tool (eraser icon) crashes LrC whether the generative AI box is checked or not and whether object aware is checked or not.  Heal and clone seem to work as before.

[Sean32841588iah2]

This is not working as effectively as the tool in Photoshop. The generative AI does not remove objects at all, instead it just redesigns the object you're trying to remove.

[Joseph37637482upxu]

WHEN i TRY TO REMOVE IMAGE ITS NOT REMOVING IT  AND IT BRING BACK ONOTHER OBJECT! IT'S WEARD IT DOES NOT REMOVE OBJECT COMPLETE.

[Thomas36281276v3t2]

Works great.  Nice to have immediate 3 options of regeneration.  I am finding there's a glitch with the image returning to another regeneration or reverting to original after Noise Reduction is implemented.  

[Richie Vitale]

Tried the Generative Remove Tool today on a twig over a Mockingbird's face and it did a way better job than the normal Heal tool and even better job than the Inpainting Tool in Affinity Photo would have done...fantastic!!! The ability to turn OFF the Tool Overlay and the three different versions is brilliant! 

Someone mentioned a feathering option. I didn't really need it but it would be a welcome Feature Request. 

GOOD ARTISTIC WORK 🧡

[zaconline]

Tried to remove a car, but all I got was different styles of cars.

[Ian Lyons]

You need to select the entire car plus any shadows, reflections or projections. Be generous with you selection/mask.

[MPDAEF]

Have you tried using "object aware" but NOT checking the generative
option? That has worked for me sometimes.
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[Laurent236635206g3w]

It's a great improvement of Lightroom.
I was winting for it since a long time.

[健吾37643037gbxs]

生成削除は、ぼやけたオブジェクトを削除しても消えないです。

[helenb73232788]

Sadly more often than not it gives me results that are almost identical to what I was trying to remove for example a long piece of fence post replaced with the same! Popped it into Ps and got rid of it first time!

[Guillermo33861820dnsw]

Hi
Just here to say : Amazing!
it was nice before, with the "local" remove, but it has not taken a cord out of adress like it was never there, truly good,

Thanks!

[Buzzlightyear123]

I have a particular image whereby instead of removing the selected objets it replaces them with something different. I have the correct settings as when I choose an alternative image the object is removed not replaced.

[jhapeman1]

Rather than read through 18 pages of feedback to see what ones are similar to mine I'm just going to list my feedback here:

1) This really needs a lasso tool or something similar.

2) It needs feathering to reduce the hard edges that can result.

3) It would benefit immensely from being linked to masking--mask an object you want to remove.  The object selection seems to be based on something totally different than the one in the masking tools and its worse. 

It seems odd to me that its being implemented so differently than the same feature in Photoshop, which works extremely well and is well-designed. Its a good start but the implementation would benefit tremendously from a more user-friendly implementation. 

[Rural Route 1]

So far I really like the addition of the AI tool.  What I've found annoying is using it to remove smaller areas the AI suggestion is obscured by the eraser icon so you can even see what the AI is suggesting.  If while the area is active if the eraser icon could be disabled or appear outside the selected area that would help with picking which one of the initial three suggestions works best of if a regeneration needs to be requested.

[Califdan2]

PROBLEM:

When using the LrC/13.3 Generative Remove tool,  it removes the thing painted over and replaces it with something else.  The problem is that in most representational photography, when you want something removed,  like a tourist or trash can, you want it replaced with background similar to its surrounding rather than having it replaced with a different tourist or trash can.    Heal, Clone and Content Aware remove can many times do this but without the AI component many times one just can't find a source area that works.

PROPOSAL

In the Remove mode of the Remove tool,  add two sub  obtions:

1. Generative Replace AI -  If selected this option would replace the painted object with some other AI generated object.  For example a different cat or different tourist
2. Generative Fill AI - If selected this option would remove the painted over object and fill in that area with AI generated background similar to the area surrounding the removed thing.   

[D Fosse]

<nevermind - wrong forum>

[Wurstkrapfen]

How are you handling the transfer to the highres source image if I use GenAI on a smartpreview on a mobile device?

• Will LRC re-render it with the same seed in a higher resolution?
• Do I have to manually tell it to re-render it?
• Will a  Gen-AI fill on a Smartpreview result in a lower res fill compared to if I do it on the full file?

[Jovial_JourneyB831]

Hi, started using  generative remove a few days ago and the results were terrible! The problem seems to be the images had AI Denoise applied to them, hence they were in the .dng format. Tried on normal raw files, with no adjustments, and it worked fine.

[Ian Lyons]

The order edits should be applied is: Denoise - Heal (Including Gen Remove) - Crop/Edit - AI Selective edits

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

The order edits should be applied is: Denoise - Heal (Including Gen Remove) - Crop/Edit - AI Selective edits

By @Ian Lyons

If you want to avoid trouble...

[Marco Kers]

Wow! I'm really impressed.

I wanted to remove this part of a 'post'? From a picture from the Aya Sofia.

It really did an incredible thing, It even knew there was chandelier hanging behind it.

I don't mind, that a person was generated in it's place.