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

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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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.

[Zorawar Singh Lugani]

New AI-powered Generative Remove (Early Access) is fantastic and quick. Keep it up.

[SindreAHN Photography]

One thing creating more problems sometimes then any good. The old removal functions are better. Going to choose a spot on the sky and it thinks it`s the rocks on the ground?????

[jrp2012]

One key use for the generative fill feature is to fill gaps at edges following a transform, to straighten the image.  The fill feature only works on existing pixels and won't fill edges.  (This limitation also makes it harder for ordinary repair, which also doesn't work well on edges (eg, to gert rid of intruding branches), because it can try to blend pixels with ones outside the transformed frame.)

[Jeff Hackbarth]

This has been working decently well (but not as great as the Photoshop equivalent) the past few months, but tonight I'm getting this error: "Generative Remove Failed. We've encountered an issue and can't complete your request at this time. Please try again later." Running the latest version on Mac OS 12.7.6. 

[JnHkstr]

tried to remove two persons with yellow fluorescent jackets from a picture (architecture), but they are not being removed completely, only the legs and  looks like  only transparancy is lowered for the upper part of the body. I would expect especially the bright coloured jackets would be easy to remove due to the contrast

[ArcherA4]

Even from the .png it did a pretty good job on a 30 second hack. The only way that I could reproduce the ghosting was by dropping the opacity slider down to 50ish on the Remove Panel as below...?

 

 

 

[maaridiz]

não gostei, demora demais para gerar e não é eficaz, a versão anterior é muito melhor!

[christine6760]

After I did the Lightroom Classis update for 13.5.1, the removal and heal only works up until I try to apply or save it...there is no button that does this so it never saves. What is happening? Before the update I had these tools not there is no way to save or apply my changes:

[Arnold-Norway]

@christine6760 - Your photo is showing the Heal tool, not the Generative Remove AI. With Heal you just mark the area you want to heal, adjust, and then Close.
If you select Generative Remove AI, and do not check Generative AI or Object Aware checkbox, there is no Apply, just Close
If you check Generative AI or Object Aware checkbox, you will see the button Apply.
This is what it used to be.

[christine6760]

yeah, I just close and it reverts back to original. Doesn't save or make the change. Thanks

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[Arnold-Norway]

If you don't cancel or remove, it is saved. Most settings don't have a save button. They are saved, as you did the settings.

[georgeb90242399]

Absolutely fabulous....Has saved me hours in editing

The three options and the refresh give me dozens optional images.....

[Santiago28910380m2qd]

While editing a photo of a butterfly in a bed of Black-Eyed Susans, I remove a portion of a small blurred branch with leaves. I got one usable edit; however, one of the edits was the production of a complete insect, something like a blue beetle, which had nothing to do with the selected surrounding areas including in the Generative AI.  I don't know how it happened since there is only one butterfly and nothing else but the flowers, the AI generated something out of the blue, with no reference it could use to bring it to the picture.

[Arnold-Norway]

I think it is important to mask the whole subject and a little outside it, to get a good result.  If some of the subjct you want to remove is not masked, Lightroom will try to replace your subjct with something else.

[pjsc_peter]

Es gibt immer mehr Funktionen um störende Bildteile zu entfernen, aber an den Bildrändern funktionieren alle nicht. Ich kann benutzen was ich will, das Resultat ist immer schlecht. Erst mit Photoshop funktioniert es zufriedenstellened.  Ich habe mal ein Beispielbild mit allen 4 möglichen Funktionen bearbeitet (siehe Anhang). 
KI ist ja toll, aber so einfache Sachen könnte man doch auch mal fixen, oder mache ich was falsch?

Lightroom Classic  13.5.1 auf MacOS 14.6.1   Aber das Problem ist eigentlich uralt....

[ArcherA4]

Your AI image suggests that you applied a sky mask or otherwise adjusted the image before the AI Generative remove - but the AI samples the original sky so you get a ghost image - top photo here is a very quick AI before a sky mask, second is a quick sky mask, third is AI after sky mask showing the ghosts like in your fourth image

 

 

 

 

[pjsc_peter]

You are right. I wasn't aware of this "limitation". I tried it with an unchanged picture and it worked.  A warning would be nice if the picture was changed before the remove tool.

Thank you very much

Peter

[sb2314]

You are right. A warning would help many people avoid having to resort to
support. It would help Adobe tremendously, as well as its users.

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[pjsc_peter]

Or, even better, Lightroom should sort the change down in the stack, or use the changed image instead of the original one. However, it is a beta function and I expect some more fine tuning. 

[Arnold-Norway]

That is easy to completely remove, both the subject in the corner and the red arrow. It is important to mask over the whole subject, and a little outside it too.

[edduin_emiro_3280]

realmente me parece una herramienta muy util, estoy apenas familiarilazandome con ella, pero realmente me ha sido muy util. 

[Joshyi3]

The new update seems to be a problem lately ........ wassup with this ? 

i keep getting this message whenever i go back to my edit ...... 

[bryan24201607v3du]

Photoshop's remove tool is superior than the one in lightroom in every aspect. 

[ejsg]

hi, i was editing a picture and after erasing a person from a picture ( a man ), suddenly a woman appeard in the picture sitting in the same chair as the man.  

can you explain what happend. thanks

[Ian Lyons]

@ejsg 

Below is from notes in first post in thread. Follow the Lightroom Queen link shown below. The link will take you to a tutorial explaining what you're seeing and how to avoid.

• 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