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The recommended order for applying edits is:
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Esta increible, deja de ser necesario salir del LR e ir a PS para borrar cosas indeseadas en las fotografias! ( el famoso tripie de luz ) Gracias!
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Love the feature, but the remove doesn't always remove. It just replaces with some other object.
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I have not had luck with it actually removing anything either. It replaces a trash can with a slightly different trash can.
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@chuckw19823004, @tvandoren6 , see this article for tips on removing objects instead of replacing them:
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Thanks John - that might be the issue. The things that didn't get removed were at the edge of the photo. Photoshop handled it with zero problem, so I would have expected Lightroom to do the same.
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I've had similar results. The remove tool in Photoshop generaly does a better job than in Lightroom. Neither tool is perfect. I also think that the remove tool in Lightroom is way slower than the remove tool in Photoshop. I hope Adobe keeps working on it. If the Lightroom remove tool could be as good as in Photoshop or better, it wouldn't be necessary to use Photoshop for many of my images and would also save disk space.
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@Jeff A. Goulden, can you post before/after screenshots of the entire image showing how LR does worse than Photoshop? Most of the complaints that LR does worse than Photoshop are addressed by this article:
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Thanks John, I read the article and generally do as they suggest. The image I had problems with was a bird that has a fairly thick branch behind its head which I wanted to remove. I tried about 5 or 6 times using Lightroom and got different results each time. In the 3 examples I show the original, one of the Lightroom attempts and the successful one using Photoshop. Full disclosure: I made several attempts with Photoshop before I could get the remove tool to work.
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@Jeff A. Goulden, can you attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original? Using the low-res version you posted, Remove quickly removed the stick:
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John, I'm not sure what's going on but I am unable to upload any files right now. It starts uploading and then stalls half way through. By the way, when you tried the low res jpg, did you do it in one swipe or more?
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@Jeff A. Goulden, the forum platform is often overloaded and very slow. You could instead upload to Dropbox, Google Drive, Wetransfer, or similar and post the sharing link here.
"when you tried the low res jpg, did you do it in one swipe or more?"
I did the branch to the left of the bird's head first and then the branch to the right separately. I used Object Aware to select each half, then refined it with Subtract to make sure very little of the bird was selected.
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Thanks John, as always. With Photoshop Remove Tool, I swiped the entire branch including the birds head. It left a few artifacts which I was able to clean up using the remove tool on the same area. I will continue to experiment but it's difficult to clean up after using the Lightroom remove tool. It doesn't want to let you back into the same area using the same tool. I wish that Adobe had designed the remove tool with exactly the same functionality as Photoshop.
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@Jeff A. Goulden: "...Lightroom remove tool. It doesn't want to let you back into the same area using the same tool."
If you set Tool Overlay to Never (keyboard shortcut H), then the Remove area's icons disappear and you can brush in previous areas.
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Thanks John, that's good to know. I have switched back to using the remove tool in Photoshop for now. I'm sure that the Lightroom remove tool will get better over time, especially if Adobe looks at all the feedback. I just don't have time for experimenting.
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I agree.... LR is not nearly as good as PS yet. I'm trying to remove a white square from the edge of an ocean scene. Lots of water to choose from as a replacement but the Remove tool just keeps adding more white blobs.
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@Wendi_DL: "I'm trying to remove a white square from the edge of an ocean scene. ... the Remove tool just keeps adding more white blobs."
See this article for how to "remove" rather than "replace":
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.
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This is link does not lead to a descent solution for the problem described.
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Please, explain what 'your' specific isssue is and in what way does the information at the link not provide a solution. A screenshot demonstrating your issue would also be helpful.
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Same here, I tried to remove a person and it just replaced the white person with a black person.
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@shawnr64710704: "I tried to remove a person and it just replaced the white person with a black person."
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.
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Have you cropped the image before? If so, try removing the disturbing object BEFORE cropping the image.
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Same here. When it works, it's great. But I'm trying to remove a car, and all I get are other cars to replace it. 😞
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If the AI model is replacing instead of removing, then it's very likely that you've not fully selected/masked the item to be removed. Shadows, reflections and projections not included in your selection/mask will also cause the AI model to replace.
You can see how to avoid this in the below linked tutorial.
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This is not a fix.