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.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

I use a trackball and I prefer the keys...

[East End Steve]

I have generally found it to work well.

What I'm writing below may be overly descriptive but I'm hoping it will enable Adobe's developers to solve the problems I have been encountering.

Note that the photo I'm working on is my own, shot yesterday on a Nikon Z8, is the raw (NEF) image.  This particular image is a virtual LrC copy.  Note also that non-human objects have been erased effectively in earlier croppings of this image (although several tries are sometimes required to make images adjacent to the edge of the photo to entirely disappear.  I have also seen this type of behavior in inPixio's "Eraser" function, the only reason I have inPixio; I have been hoping this capability in LrC would make an inPixio subscription renewal unnecessary.).

However, on the image I'm currently editing, I am trying to erase a face that's in the photo with the main subject.  Then weirdness happens:  Instead of erasing the face, it inserts a face that isn't even in the photo.  I try it again and, instead of erasing the face, it inserts a random face that is not even in the photo or any photo I have ever taken, as far as I can recall.

Where are these faces coming from???

Here's the original before I attempt to erase the fellow on the lower left...

Here's the image with that fellow marked for erasure...

And after I hit the "Apply" button...

After I hit the "Refresh" button...

And again...

And again...

And so on...

So, for completeness, I'll tell you that I have:

- LrC 13-3

- Windows 10, the absolute latest update...

- A Powerspec G701 with an 8-core Ryzen 7 processor and 48GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, lots of swap space and storage

So, please tell me what's going on and how I can make this work correctly.  I'll be happy with workarounds, in order to get complete what I have to get done.

Also, do you have any idea who these other people are (are they even real?), and where they're being sourced for insertion into my image?

Thanks! 

[Corniger]

Note also that non-human objects have been erased effectively in earlier croppings of this image

By @East End Steve

Rules of engagement simplified:
No touching of the image prior to removal except denoising

[Ian Lyons]

Your screenshots indicate that you're trying to use Generative Remove on an image that has been cropped.  Generative Remove should be undertaken before crop is applied. You may may find below linked article helpful

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

[johnrellis]

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Building on the previous replies, when I applied Remove to your image (extracted from the screenshot, with no cropping in LR), the person in the background was quickly removed:

[roger75lee]

I love the new feature, it often gives me great results but when it doesn't it doesn't. I use this primarily to remove all the people off the beach during beach weddings.  I do love that you are improving the feature, I have been a lot happier since it has been added.

[johnrellis]

@roger75lee: "it often gives me great results but when it doesn't it doesn't"

Attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from an unmodified original photo in which Remove doesn't work well for you. We can either give you a simple tip for making it work better or, if not, it will provide Adobe with another example of where they need to improve.

[Richard3873231739il]

Recent update is using the same keyboard shortcut for another function. 

I was using CTRL + ALT + o  to show the loup overlay in Develop mode in Lightroom Classic.

After updating today to Ver. 13.4, the CTRL + ALT + o taggles the Object aware aware function of the generative AI.

I can still turn on the loup overlay from the menus, but even the menu option still shows the keyboar shortcut. I does still works when in Library mode, but it is only useful to me in Develop mode.

[johnrellis]

@Richard3873231739il: "I was using CTRL + ALT + o  to show the loup overlay in Develop mode in Lightroom Classic.

After updating today to Ver. 13.4, the CTRL + ALT + o taggles the Object aware aware function of the generative AI."

LR 13.4 assigned Ctrl Alt O / Cmd Opt O to both Object Aware and Loupe Overlay > Show. Adobe has acknowledged this bug:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-shortcut-ctrl-alt-o-show-loupe-overlay-doesn...

[DTM777]

AI-powered Generative Remove performed extremely poorly for me. Removing a pretty simple, very linear brick wall from the lower left corner of an image (with uniformly textured green grass sorrounding it) should have been an easy task, even without AI. However, applying the AI Generative Remove was a complete disaster (result looked more like a very crude, early-2000s rendition of clone/heal brush). I tried every available option and adjustment, all without success. Very disappointing performance, especially given the animated GIF marketing snippet that accompanies the AI Generative Remove feature, which depicts three [very deceptively] impressive results. While I appreciate being able to "beta test" this feature, regrettably, it has a long way to go before it's ready for release.

[johnrellis]

@DTM777: "Removing a pretty simple, very linear brick wall from the lower left corner of an image"

Your photo very possibly has cropped out pixels on the edge next to the brick wall, due to Crop, Transform, or Lens Corrections. Remove looks at all the pixels of the photo and tries to match those cropped-out pixels.  Disable Crop, Transform, and Lens Corrections before doing Remove.

If that doesn't help, 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 that still 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 quickly remove the desired objects.

[Spiderciccio]

on some objects it works really well, on others a little less but it's a big step forward compared to the previous removal tool, however I still prefer the spot healing brush from ps

[johnrellis]

@Spiderciccio: "on others a little less"

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 quickly remove the desired objects.

[Danny3876213824kn]

great

[ant6867]

They key to me is in the name where I expect a remove not a replace.  On abot 50% of ocassions some random 'stuff' gets inserted and have no idea where this has come from.   Get the same in photoshop. On other occasions one does get a very good remove. Where there is a lot of plain background a good results is very common and some times on a complex background.   But replace seems to be a somewhat random event and pressing refresh seems to make little difference, just get a load more different 'stuff' not a element of neutral background! 

[johnrellis]

@ant6867: "On abot 50% of ocassions some random 'stuff' gets inserted and have no idea where this has come from. "

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 quickly remove the desired objects.

[jessicah89218658]

Dear Adobe...

NEVER EVER is it appropriate to replace someone's hand with a gun. Do better. 

[Ian Lyons]

@jessicah89218658 

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

[Annette387858694ds0]

Lightroom: If I want to delete a person or a part of a person Lightroom often places new persons in the picture even if i I try again. I don't see why I should want a new person but it would be nice that at least one of the suggestions is without a person. I think Photoshop does a better job even without instruction ( at least if you try several times, but in Lightroom new people keep coming back)

[Ian Lyons]

@Annette387858694ds0 

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

[Jack32501827kj3s]

Hands down this is a game CHANGER! It took this masterpiece bird photo and removed a significant tree limb encroaching on the subject. I CAN'T even tell where the branch was loacted. 80 to 90% of the time it gets the correction I'm looking for right the first time. Can't thank you enough!

[Jan29076768c2o2]

the remove tool works pretty decent when an object has to be removed from te center of the image. but when you want to remove an object that is on the border, it never works. It would be great if this can be implemented better. because a lot of times I want to remove objects that are partially in the frame. 

[johnrellis]

@Jan29076768c2o2: "when you want to remove an object that is on the border, it never works. "

This happens when there are pixels that have been cropped out due to Crop, Lens Corrections, or Transform. Remove looks at all the pixels of the photo and is generating a replacement that matches those cropped-out pixels. Apply Remove first before those cropping commands.

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 quickly remove the desired objects.

[SBainbridge]

Worked great to remove a blown out cloud and fill it in to blend with the other clouds!

[Gert-Jan258753178qxq]

When removing abjects against a clear, equally colored background (eg a blue sky), it does often not match the present color so the slightly different replaced color stands out against the original color of the background