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. 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.

[gordonm67764613]

Hi. I have used this new feature with amazing results but today, no matter what I do I continue to get a dark outline of the area selected. It is one of the easiest objects I have tried to remove but for some reason not today. You can see the area selected outline infont of the bird's beak & I have tried to include the bird on the branch above too just to see ifthe outline will go away but it doesn't.

[johnrellis]

@gordonm67764613: "You can see the area selected outline infont of the bird's beak & I have tried to include the bird on the branch above too just to see ifthe outline will go away but it doesn't."

Do you have an AI mask (e.g. Background) applied to that area?  If so, then do Settings > Update AI Settings.

If not, there have been several reports here about the replacements not getting matched well with the background, leaving this kind of outline or difference in texture. Using a larger, more raggedy selection has avoided the the problem in the other examples: 

If this doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the original unmodified photo.

[gordonm67764613]

Hi.



No I don't have a background mask there, I made sure to check for that
first.



Cheers

[Carlos.solor]

This actually has been great to use for small little details for me. Love the options its given so far and I cant wait to explore more with it. 

[Lucas38711514k2dq]

LEGAL

[Walney Muniz]

Está com um erro, estou tentando remover o objeto no lado direito, porém o pincel está removendo do lado oposto.

[Ian Lyons]

That's a known issue. You can read more at below link in Bugs forum

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-remove-brush-strokes-appear-in-the-wrong-pla...

[Walney Muniz]

Girar a imagem antes de usar o pincel de ajuste faz com que ele fique do lado oposto na hora de usar.

[Ian Lyons]

Duplicate post, and has already been answered with link to existing bug report also provided

[Jim330107399f5o]

It took me a few minutes to get used to this tool.  It did exactly what I wanted it to do.

[MaryEllyn22562693ti8v]

I had a great day yesterday using Generative AI.  I purposively took photos where I would have to remove objects but still wanted the background to look like it was in the scene.  My biggest success was removing a side of car parked near the river.  I was impressed with its removal and how the other bank that was covered up by the car looked like the car was never there.....Very, very impressive.

I took the advice of painting beyond the car and included all reflections and other artifacts.  I used Generative AI Remove in the start of my workflow.  

[davidr99294704]

Tried to remove a brick wall on the side of my image hoping it would be replaced by bushes that surrounded the selection...it just kept generating different brick walls in all shapes and sizes. 

[gordonm67764613]

Are you sure you didn't crop the image first? If you do, the AI will look
outside your crop to choose what to replace with. There is a popup box that
sort of suggests that you need to remove first before anything else.pretty
much.

[johnrellis]

@davidr99294704: "it just kept generating different brick walls in all shapes and sizes."

Most instances of Remove "replacing" instead of "removing" can be fixed by following the tips in this article:

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

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.

[DTungate]

Overall this is working well for me.  I too sometimes get wierd results but I find that changing the brush area helps, and sometimes I'll accept the results then redo the remove.

Suggestions:

1. I don't know if it's somethingwith my settings but using my enter key will not accept the 1st Variation.  If I scroll through the Variations then my enter key will accept any version.

2. Being able to use the arrow keys to advance through the Variations would help with work flow.

Thanks!