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, 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.

[L. Rodrigo_Hinojosa M2653]

No me deja usar la IA, que raro, dice acceso anticipado, lo intento y dice que lo intente mas tarde

[John R Ellis]

Google translation of the error: "Generative deletion failed. We have encountered a problem and are unable to complete your request at this time. Please try again later."

In LR running in English, that error appears as, "We've encountered an issue and can't complete your request at this time. Please try again later."

Sometimes firewalls and anti-malware mistakenly interfere with LR's outgoing network connections. Try these initial troubleshooting steps to identify if that's the issue:

1. Temporarily disable any firewall and anti-malware package on your computer.

2. Connect your computer to a different network (phone hotspot, coffee-shop wifi, neighbor's network, etc.)

[Aplanc]

Did you check if you had an internet connection? You need it

[JeroenMentens]

I get this error message when I start lightroom while my VPN connection is starting up as well and can't connect. 

Restarting Lightroom after fixing the VPN solves the problem 

[Lenkaland]

Feature is improving. Would be great if it had a simple checklist, like similar, nearby, or nature. Doesn't have to be as extensive as Photoshop, but when it's stuck on replacing a shed with other sheds (even though I want grass), it would be great if I could point it towards what I'm trying to acheive. 

[John R Ellis]

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When I carefully selected the background behind the dog's head in your exported JPEG, it replaced the blurry shed with out-of-focus grass:

The metadata indicates you've cropped a Canon 5D Mark IV 4480 x 6720 to 4052 x 6078. This suggests that you cropped the raw first and then applied Remove. Since Remove looks at all pixels (cropped and uncropped), it's probably matching the cropped-out, unselected pixels of the shed. 

The current design of the tool requires that you apply Remove first, then crop.  See this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

[nrbiocom]

After a few poasses of generative AI, my cursor turns into a Zoom cursor and nothing I do can restore the normal cursor and options.  Only a program restart fixes it.

[John R Ellis]

@nrbiocom: "my cursor turns into a Zoom cursor and nothing I do can restore the normal cursor and options.  Only a program restart fixes it."

Try resetting LR's preferences:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

[vegasmike702]

this is why we should have the option of moving the editing blocks around to our custom preferneces.