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:

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.

[John R Ellis]

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@Ben38474280lm19: "remove electrical poles with a cloudy backdrop, and I find that the filled area is consistently slightly off in terms of color/tone as compared to the background."

I encountered similar suboptimal results a while ago, and I ended up not using Object Aware selection, but instead making a raggedy selection significantly wider than the poles:

[Matthew31982138klcl]

I used to have a "photoshop work" that I would outsource - that is no longer necessary!  Amazing! 

[defaultoqq64s6tqtvx]

Fréquemment, la suppression générative de Lightroom remplace l'objet que je veux supprimer par un objet différent mais semblable, au lieu de le supprimer. Par exemple cela remplace une automobile par une autre automobile.

Ce n'est pas ce que j'en attends.  Qu'une "IA" invente un sujet, un objet ou que sais-je ne m'intéresse pas.  Par contre, qu'elle soit capable de reconstituer l'arrière plan qui se trouve derrière l'objet que je veux supprimer, ça, c'est véritablement intelligent., et cela m'aiderait beaucoup.

[John R Ellis]

@defaultoqq64s6tqtvx: "Often, Lightroom's generative deletion  replaces the object I want to delete with a different but similar object"

See this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to remove the desired objects.

[Tobias38488938y8jo]

If you use the AI removal tool of LR on an object in front of a flat, less structured background such as a beach or a house wall, you will get artifacts with brighter areas that roughly correspond to the previous outlines. This does not occur with PS.

[John R Ellis]

@Tobias38488938y8jo, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the original, unmodified photo and call out which objects you're removing. 

[alessandro36475762qkg2]

funziona.  Quasi impressionante.

[default0j54qibpting]

Hi - late to this forum and this might have been covered. Bit surprised at this result but might be outside the scope of the functionality. Attempted to remove power pole.

[John R Ellis]

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@defaultoqq64s6tqtvx, that ghost image is caused by applying Remove (any mode of Remove) on top of an existing mask. Do Settings > Update AI Settings, or apply Remove first and then apply the mask. 

This is as-designed by Adobe, though it confuses many people and doesn't fit their natural workflows.

[default0j54qibpting]

Ah - yes, makes sense now. Thank you!!!!!

[All Is Light]

So far I'm loving this feature guys.  Mostly it works amazingly, way better than I could do in photoshop. A couple of things for feedback

• when removign something from a block colour like a wall or sky, it needs a feather added. Sometimes I can see the delineated area that was removed. It often needs to blend better.
• like others have said, I often just want something removed and blended with the background, rather that add some object

Keep up the great work

[John R Ellis]

@All Is Light: "I often just want something removed and blended with the background, rather that add some object"

See this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to remove the desired objects.

[John R Ellis]

@All Is Light: "Sometimes I can see the delineated area that was removed. It often needs to blend better."

There have been a few posts here about that. If you attach here a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo and call out the object being removed, that will provide more examples to Adobe of what users are finding doesn't work well.  See here for a simple technique I've found to avoid the issue:

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

[leeannr41971526]

Much easier than opening up photoshop to remove unwanted objects

[sb2314]

It works great or much better in a high-definition RAW file, even when converted to .jpg than in a lower-resolution .jpg file. More information available for it I'm guessing? It is a work in progress, so I hope for much-improved results soon.

[defaultmhofob4q9t16]

Tried to remove a building and got a building shaped white spot.  followed your advice about order of procedures.

[John R Ellis]

@defaultmhofob4q9t16: "Tried to remove a building and got a building shaped white spot."

Did you apply Remove on top of an AI mask, e.g. a Sky mask?  If so, do Settings > Update AI Settings or apply Remove first and then the mask.

If that doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail.

[Elena3852086441ny]

A ferramenta "IA Generative" é incrível!!! Uma pena que às vezes ela faz exatamente o que eu preciso que é deletar o objeto indesejado e substitui-lo por completo de fundo fake e perfeito (o que pra mim é mais importante); mas as vezes ela simplesmente substitui por um elemento qualquer (o que eu jamais quero). A ferramenta está a decidir sozinha o que ela faz, se complementa o fundo original ou se substitui por objeto. Isso é triste!  

[Ian Lyons]

@Elena3852086441ny 

See this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

[Gerard38305403cjab]

Grassprieten zoals deze worden vaak niet verwijderd, maar vervangen

Graag verwijderen zoals commando aangeeft (vinkje behoud object staat uit)

[John R Ellis]

@Gerard38305403cjab: "Blades of grass like this are often not removed, but replaced"

When I apply Generative Remove to your screenshot, it does a good job of replacing the blade of grass with background:

This indicates it's likely you have applied a Crop, Lens Corrections, or Transform, or you have a camera that automatically crops out a small border around the raw photo when you import it.  Undo any Crop, Lens Corrections, and Transform and try again. See this article for more details:

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

If that doesn't help, please attach the original photo here (not an export) so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. If the forum won't let you attach it, upload it to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar and post the sharing link here.

[Federico35685904b9y4]

Sometimes, the AI did not undestand that i want to remove something replacing it with the background. 

[John R Ellis]

See this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly everyone who has posted a problem photo, we've been able to show how to remove the desired objects.

[frankk88475297]

I have been trying to remove people from the background of a picture I took of my wife in Venice using manual Lightroom and photoshop edits but could never get it right.  The new AI feature easily removed the people and filled in the background with what it "thought"  should be there. I am not sure if the new background is accurate but I love what it did.  Great tool and can't wait to see what the final product does.

[SeniorPhotoshopGeek]

Removing power lines or cables sometimes works great, sometimes draws cables / lines back in, even with image created by pano merge  which has no overall lens correction or transform applied. Using bigger / more unevenly shaped selection sometimes helps.

Removing something against sky sometimes generates strange textures (see image. This view is zoomed to 300%).