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Your description suggests that you've applied the Generative AI, Clone, Heal tools to an image with an AI mask. You can easily check whether this is the case or not by looking for a red dot below the Masks icon on the toolbar. If red dot is present, then you'll need to 'Update the AI Mask'. See atatched screenshot.
To avoid the same issue in future, it's best to apply the Remove tool before creating an AI mask.
Thanks for your suggestion. I was indeed using AI maks. But updating them made no change. So I completely reset an image and tried again. Still got the problem as you can see in the screenshots.
That's the original image:
With the normal remove tool:
With the AI remove tool:
With the healing tool:
With the clone tool:
As I wrote, other things like sensor dust, hot pixels, airplane tracks, ... suffer from the same issue.
Works great with small object in the background but anything large or close to object that has similar color didn't work so well.
IT JUST DOESN'T WORK. You circle the object, hit the 'subtract' option (or the add), hit apply and NOTHING HAPPENS. I'm left with an object with white lines around it.
I used a different photo to not post personal photos of my grandchildren online. Didn't just circle, shaded the whole area. Sames result after hitting 'apply'. just a white line. Here's the original photo.
One thing I noticed after reviewing your MP4 - my photo does not have the little symbol inside the shaded area, everything else looks exactly as yours - MAC with M1, LRC Adobe.
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@chuckw19823004, using your sample fountain photo, I got very good results. As Victoria suggested, it seems your opacity slider may not be set to 100:
When I use the Object Aware option to select just the ice chest, it gets replaced with some concrete to maintain the visual presence of the shadows (otherwise, the shadows would look pretty weird!):
If I refine the selection to include the shadows and a little more generous area around the ice chest, as recommended in Victoria's article, it eliminates the shadows and doesn't generate that extra concrete:
If I set the Opacity slider to 1, then the replacement mask generated by Remove becomes completely transparent (invisible), showing the original photo with the ice chest underneath. This matches what you've been observing.
I love that this is now in LR, which is great for quick fixes.
I do however find that when objects you want removed extend to the edge of the image, this tool does not handle them well. It feels like it thinks that I have not selected all of the pixels despite me using the eraser tool to the edge and beyond. Almost like there is a feathered selection when you get to the edge of the image. I have tried with "Object Aware" turned on and off, without any improvement. I have also tried several varriations of selections and refreshed the results. The problem is persistant.
Heal isn't doing much better. It keeps trying to blend the original color of the object into the final result.
I'll go back to Stamp for this one, but I do not think that most LR users will want to use these tools this way.
I think an improvement would be for us to tell the AI tool we want to "Remove" or "Replace" (or similar).
Using your low-resolution screeshot, Generative AI + Object Aware did a good job of removing the object first try:
Did you crop the photo first, with the lower-left blob having more pixels out-of-crop? If so, then as the article above explains, Remove applies to the uncropped image, and will try to match the selected area to the out-of-crop pixels.
If that doesn't help, please upload the original image (uncropped) to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar, and post the sharing link here.
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