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.
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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.

[felipe saravia]

Está muy bien en principio, pero al igual que en Photoshop, en algunos casos al generar algo,  agrega algo que no viene al caso, debe de haber la opción de simplemente quita el objeto, la persona o lo que sea SIN PONER OBJETOS. En un caso particular quiero quitar una persona y necesariamente me pone otra persona, sin entender que lo que quiero es quitarlo

[kevinb38819613]

This feature is amazing.  Objects which were difficult to remove because of a comlex background now disappear in seconds.

[RLSartography]

I love the updates for generative AI and remove tool, however, I am not able to manipulate the spot that I try to remove or heal. This is how I would blend with the background more. I would love to be able to have that feature back! 

[FotografaLuis34148338oc9h]

Hello, I would like to know if someone can help me with my problem, yesterday I updated lr and even that does not work very well to remove objects I was working masks tools like creating background mask and subject, today I no longer work, uninstall the app and I returned to intalar and still does not work, download the previous version and if I funsiona, if someone can tell me what the problem or is because this is still very new version and if someone is presenting the same problem, thanks 

[Tim Almond]

Excellent feature! Recommend the ability to point the tool at another reference image. E.g. a series of photos taken of a street scene where you want to remove a vehicle. If you could point the tool at another photo where the vehicle has moved slightly, this would help in the creation of a more accurate background. Would be especially useful where there is text that is partially obscured by the object you wish to remove.

[Teresa328508870nme]

Me gusta mucho porque facilita la edición. Lo que me ha empezado a pasar y que no sé si tiene que ver con esta actualización, es que en las máscaras no detecta sujetos ni cielos cuando concretamente los sujetos son más que evidentes. 

[Medli Labradoo]

I had high hopes but I am finding it pretty useless and I pretty much will have to keep going into PS to actually remove objects. 

[Gerardo_Florez2020]

Hola, actualicé hoy Lightroom con gran expectativa, y cuando intento aplicar la opción quitar para remover objetos o personas, no me funciona, en cambio me cambia (en mi caso) una persona que quería remover, por otra parecida, y me da tres opciones. Pero lo que quiero es eliminar esa persona u objeto. ¿Qué estoy haciendo mal?

[Herve_LL]

j'ai le meme probleme . certaines fois ça marche et d'autres pas

certaines fois la personne est supprimée et à la place j'ai bien le fond d'image (pelouse) et d'autres fois non , comme vous

[davidr99294704]

Not bad. I like it. Removed an old man from a track meet I was photographing. Please ignore my wonky color correction on the right. 

[Herve_LL]

it would be nice to be able to complete images in a panorama for instance where often angles are to be cropped

It is possible in PS , why not as an option of panoramas in LRC?

[Nambi37627221svjd]

mac os

[Rajiv Vashisht]

superb work by adobe 🙂 ..was eagerly w8ing for this update...it would be historical update is adobe provide gererative expand in Lightroom 🙂

[Lion&Cub]

H I love this as I have a spot on my sensor and its easy to remove it with this, plus quick tidy up of the background

[Ian Lyons]

Adobe recommend that you continue to use the original heal tool for fixing sensor spots.

[gillesdebda]

Bonjour tout le monde,

Test effectué en voulant supprimer le canard colvert sur la photo jointe.
La suppression ne fonctionne ou alors remplace le canard par un poussin ...

[Ian Lyons]

You need to select the entire duck plus any shadows, reflections or projections. Be generous with you selection/mask.

Assuming that it was the duck in the background that you wanted to remove. As such, I've attached an example of what I produced by first selecting the back duck, reflections, etc. I removed the wake either side of the front left duck separately. Don't worry about clipping the nect of the front left duck when selectings/masking the wake. Note that I used only Generative Ai Remove by leaving Object Aware unchecked.

[Lucas37627685yalg]

bastante practico y saca de muchos apuros cada vez mas sorprendido

[Franxperience]

I like the quality of the generative corrections. Two areas to improve. 1) Copying the designated marks to other pictures (very helpful if you have sensor dust 🙂 2) Speed of application of the masks

[Ian Lyons]

Adobe recommend that you continue to use the original heal tool for fixing sensor spots.

[SchuBoPhotography]

Thank you so much for Generative Remove - I've been waiting for this feature! The beta version is already working very accurately. As feedback, here are two observations:
(1)
If the object to be removed with Generative Remove is at the edge of the photo or is clipped by the edge, then the object actually to be removed is included in the generative calculation - which is not what is wanted. When calculating the new pixels, only those surrounding pixels should be taken into account that do not belong to the object that is cropped by the edge of the image.
(2)
Sometimes Generative Remove calculates new objects into the image area to be cleaned up, e.g. a house facade or a pile of stones. As a rule, these new elements fit into the image quite well - but: the new elements are inserted without being adjusted to the scaling and/or perspective of the original image. For example: the original image was photographed with a perspective from the top right, but the inserted pile of stones is shown in a frontal view and the size of the stones does not correspond to the size of the stones in the original photo.

[defaultmmrbf8zf14ce]

In my opinion, the main issue is that generated elements often don't match perfectly with the image in terms of noise level and texture. The same applies to generative fill in Photoshop.

It would be great to have an option in Lightroom to add an adjustable amount of noise to the generated elements to better blend them with the image. Alternatively, it would be ideal if the generated elements could automatically match the existing texture and noise level, eliminating the need for additional adjustments.

[laurentc14550468]

Cette nouvelle fonction n'est pas du tout au point,  aucune avancée pour ma part. Le trois fonctions précédentes , supprimer, corriger, dupliquer, étaient bien plus efficace. A faire évoluer impérativement.

[Ian Lyons]

" not at all perfect"

Rather than leaving the Development team guessing as to the issue you're having, it would be helpful if you described or shared a before/after screenshot showing an example of where Generative Remove failed.

[Ankit Ruparelia]

New AI-powered Generative Remove (Early Access)

it's not working properly on the bigger objects like human, it is not removing. it is getting replaced to something else.