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.
Post Camera Raw feedback here

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:

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)
4. Edit
5. AI Selective edits
   
   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.

[cosiad]

Ayer estaba trabajando bien, pero hoy (junio 1) no, no elimina las manchas ni copia de un lado a otro. Supongo que hicieron una actualización.

[marcelp74552493]

In applying Generative AI to complex item in several very similar photos, the Generative results are rarely, if ever duplicatable. I have not found any way to replicate paint and generate, it appears random

[lockephotography]

Especially when removing an object that has sky behind it, a very obvious shadow of the object is left in the sky. So I can't even use the generative remove feature when this happens. In the image attached, you can see the person on the far right that I tried to remove. 

[johnrellis]

@lockephotography: "Especially when removing an object that has sky behind it, a very obvious shadow of the object is left in the sky. So I can't even use the generative remove feature when this happens. In the image attached, you can see the person on the far right that I tried to remove."

Do Settings > Update AI Settings. See here for more information:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-new-ai-powered-generative-remove-earl...

[lawrenceh76864903]

Works great with small object in the background but anything large or close to object that has similar color didn't work so well.

[chuckw19823004]

I select the object I want to remove, it goes throught the Generative process, but doesn't remove.  Just leaves a white outline around it.  

[chuckw19823004]

IT JUST DOESN'T WORK.  You circle the object, hit the 'subtract' option (or the add), hit apply and NOTHING HAPPENS.  I'm left with an object with white lines around it.  

[johnrellis]

@chuckw19823004: "IT JUST DOESN'T WORK.  You circle the object, hit the 'subtract' option (or the add), hit apply and NOTHING HAPPENS.  I'm left with an object with white lines around it.  "

The white lines around the object results from having Tool Overlay set to Always. If you set it to Auto, then the lines will appear only when the mouse is over the image.

You don't "circle" the object, you paint completely over and around it.  I took your screenshot and used the options Generative AI + Object Aware to completely remove the girl and the white lines. The first attempt replaced rather than removed the girl, trying to match the shadows and reflections in the water below here. So as the article above explains, I refined the selection to include the shadows and reflections, and the girl was removed. Then I included the white lines, and they disappeared too.

See the attached screen recording.

If this still doesn't help, then upload the original photo to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar and post the sharing link here.

 

[chuckw19823004]

I used a different photo to not post personal photos of my grandchildren online.  Didn't just circle, shaded the whole area.  Sames result after hitting 'apply'.  just a white line.   Here's the original photo.  

One thing I noticed after reviewing your MP4 - my photo does not have the little symbol inside the shaded area, everything else looks exactly as yours - MAC with M1, LRC Adobe.  

[johnrellis]

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@chuckw19823004, using your sample fountain photo, I got very good results. As Victoria suggested, it seems your opacity slider may not be set to 100:

When I use the Object Aware option to select just the ice chest, it gets replaced with some concrete to maintain the visual presence of the shadows (otherwise, the shadows would look pretty weird!):

 

If I refine the selection to include the shadows and a little more generous area around the ice chest, as recommended in Victoria's article, it eliminates the shadows and doesn't generate that extra concrete:

 

If I set the Opacity slider to 1, then the replacement mask generated by Remove becomes completely transparent (invisible), showing the original photo with the ice chest underneath. This matches what you've been observing.

[chuckw19823004]

That did it!  Per other posts, I found if I did not enlarge the area enough, it replaced with another similar object.  thanks for all your help

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Check your opacity isn't too low.

[fernandop15496567]

Está incrivel, caminhamos para soluções de grande qualidade. Parabéns!

[fishy_J]

I love that this is now in LR, which is great for quick fixes.

I do however find that when objects you want removed extend to the edge of the image, this tool does not handle them well. It feels like it thinks that I have not selected all of the pixels despite me using the eraser tool to the edge and beyond. Almost like there is a feathered selection when you get to the edge of the image. I have tried with "Object Aware" turned on and off, without any improvement. I have also tried several varriations of selections and refreshed the results. The problem is persistant.

Heal isn't doing much better. It keeps trying to blend the original color of the object into the final result.

I'll go back to Stamp for this one, but I do not think that most LR users will want to use these tools this way.

I think an improvement would be for us to tell the AI tool we want to "Remove" or "Replace" (or similar).

[johnrellis]

Using your low-resolution screeshot, Generative AI + Object Aware did a good job of removing the object first try:

 

Did you crop the photo first, with the lower-left blob having more pixels out-of-crop?  If so, then as the article above explains, Remove applies to the uncropped image, and will try to match the selected area to the out-of-crop pixels.

If that doesn't help, please upload the original image (uncropped) to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar, and post the sharing link here.

[Coopie10]

After using the Generative Remove tool to remove some objects, I went to DeNoise and was appalled at how slow DeNoise was after using several objects with Generative Remove. I'd rather take the image into Photoshop to remove distractions than to put up with the amount of time to finish my photo in Lightroom.

[jrsforums]

After using the Generative Remove tool to remove some objects, I went to DeNoise
isn't the recommendation to do AI DeNoise first, before other adjustments?

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Yes Denoise then Remove ideally

[martink90970734]

I'm finding that it still does not work too well to remove objects. A lot of time is wasted trying to get it to work.

[eutrop]

I´ve found some problems with the object deletion in some photos. Lightroom Classic seems sometimes not to want to delete some objects, instead it replaces them with another one. I try to force it but keeps replacing with a new similar object from its library. It doesn´t happen all the time and not even in the same kind of photos.

[johnrellis]

@jrsforums, @eutrop, see this article for tips on removing objects instead of replacing them:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

If that article doesn't help, upload one of your original photos (not a screenshot) to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar an post the sharing link here. Describe the object you want to remove.

[David377906241oze]

Parfait, trés efficaces.

[walker5390]

I can not get it to work 

[JLobert]

It works really well in many cases, but very often, the algorithm is trying to CREATE something, instead of removing what is highlighted. I tried to remove a folding chair and it put a car into the scene out of nowhere. I keep seeing this happening. It should NOT be a generative fill, it should be a remove tool only.

[martin-s]

I totally agree.

Make it a remove-only tool and leave the replacement option to Photoshop.