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.

[Jacques22573691hpmg]

J'ai retouché une photo de portrait très endommagée (pliée) et le résultat est super 

[polglch]

Hello,

First try unseccessfull : I had 2 objects side by side in front of a wall with grooved tiles at an angle, I wanted to remove one of them : LR did it very well... but only to replace it with an other objet it created from scratch.  No way to have just the wall with it's grooved tiles and angle.

[elisabethbls]

First attempt: 0/10

I tried to remove a human in the background. It DID remove the human...by replacing it with THREE OTHER OPTIONS FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE! Funny, but no. Remove =/= replace. I didn't want a weird looking dude in place of the person who was there.....

[Brave_force0D4D]

A good tool, but it doesnt seem tow ant to remove goalposts whicha re basically straight lines.

[murilof1226125]

PERFEITOOOOOOOOOO TA MUITO BOA!

[billm69]

For the most part generative AI has saved me quite a bit of time with removal of distracting objects in images; however, I've noticed that when removing people from certain water scenes (ocean shore) and the people are in the water, the AI does effectively remove the people but leaves a ghost image of them with the generated area having a slightly different tonality from the rest of the water.

[Ian Lyons]

It looks like you've used 'Generative Remove' on an image that already has an AI mask applied earlier. You can tell whether this is the case by checking for a red dot below the Masks button on toolbar. You can fix this by choosing the Update AI Masks option in the Develop module 'Settings' menu of directly within the Masks panel (see attached screenshot).

[paul7nt]

Poor Implemention: In > 5 attempts, "Object Aware" + "Generative AI" in LrC could NOT remove a simple square framed colorful picture from a plain, medium bright (50%) white wall

[Kristi0237687832t5lc]

I got this problem,how i fix it
PS: Internet connection is LAN and it is 1Gbps
Please help

[toucaly]

It doesn't work when the object to remove is at the border of the picture

[Kristi0237687832t5lc]

Can you explain me more pls?

[Ian Lyons]

Below is a link to video demonstration by Julieanne Kost of Adobe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXDukmBNcg

[Kristi0237687832t5lc]

Thank you for your time to help me

[Christophe19380]

-Echec de la suppression générative- Vérifiez votre connexion internet et réessayez ( alors que je suis en Wi-Fi avec la fibre )

Please help me 😞

[Jontelcherephotography]

I think it was a trial run for a reason... bring it back to the way it was. I personally don't like it and find it harder to remove simple objects/blemishes than before. It's like 10X harder to remove anything now... and it just keeps placing things with other objects that I DON'T WANT. Ridiculous- truly! 

[hillrg]

Thanks for this tool!  I find it amazing that it has been implemented non-destructively, as I can envisage many issues to do this.

My understanding is there is a 2K resolution limit, and when you exceed this in a remove selection, the result looks a bit smushed.  This is unacceptable to me, and I would like to see a work-around.  At the least, a warning that this will happen.  Perhaps you could auto-tile the selection, and iterate through the tiles, building the final replacement pixels.  I expect this would take longer, but "slow and good" is better than "faster but smushy".

I would like to be able to have a "do not use" brush that can be used to identify elements not to be incorporated in the replacement.  For example, if the top 70% of a grass stalk is selected, and the user wants to retain the lower 30%, they need a way to tell LR not to extend the "cut-off" stalk.

I think this tool has to respect the history of prior adjustments, and the user should be able to continue to make further adjustment masks and generative deletions without paying attention to warning lights and rebuilding masks - I hope this can be automated.

Again, koodos to the engineers - this is an awesome beta!

[Juanes37693373j8y6]

No estoy teniendo una buena experiencia con él, parece que quiere crear objetoz en lugar de priorizar desaparecerlos

[Z Fiedler]

 

It doesn't matter what I do - I still have the same problem - it just doesn't work - in photoshop it works without a problem - in lightroom it doesn't - has anyone solved it yet?

[atj777]

Why not use your resources to fix all the bugs in the exiting application before creating new ones?

[Guglielmophoto]

bella idea ...applicazione piu stabile 

[jilliang33439140]

Sorry, a very 'buggy' update. worked on a folder of photos, went to save them and my mornings work had disappeared in an instant! cant find the changes that I'd made. Usually, the work is still there. I hadnt moved away from the folder or anything

Also the new AI is certainly still a 'work in progress'. does not work well in corners or on edges, and yet at other times is brilliant!

[Jared Platt]

The problem with having no text input is that the system doesn't know what you are doing.  I was trying to remove a telephone pole and it just kept replacing it with another pole.  There was no way to get it to learn because there is no input for text or even a checkbox for remove.  So it is too simple a tool.

[Saleh photo]

It is very nice that the work on processing images is done in Lightroom without the need for Photoshop for simple things such as deleting and cleaning images, but I think it needs improvement in the results.

[Martin377019551m3p]

In some cases the AI Tool worked quite good. (MacBook Pro M3 Pro)

But in difficult constellations it won't mange a useful output, even after several attempts.

Huge Disappointment came when I tried to use the old versions of those Tools - there is no more chance, grabing the refering circle an drag it to an area that is more usefull.

Right now its more like a gable, if the System might be getting it right after a dozent klicks on Update.

This is not usefull at all. 

[natasja317461214s20]

My catalogus is not working right at this moment, all the changes I make in my pictures are gone the next time I open my catalogus. What can I do?