Syncing Spot Removal Taking Way Longer Than It Should

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Since the Healing/Spot Removal tab received the Generative AI addition, when I try to sync spot removal from lots of photos (not using generative ai) it takes forever. I am removing 2 dust spots from 120 images for a timelapse right now and it is taking 14 minutes because LR says "Your edits were synced, but updating AI settings may take some time". I didn't use any generative ai, I went through my normal process to remove dust spots.

Has anyone else experienced this?

johnrellis · Answer

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You're most likely using the Remove Mode of the Remove Tool (thanks Adobe for the confusing naming), with the Generative AI and Object Aware options unchecked:

Remove Mode with Generative AI unchecked used to be called Content-Aware Remove, and it uses a more time-consuming AI algorithm. On my Macbook Pro M2 Max (2023), it takes about 3 minutes to copy 2 spots to 134 pics:

In LR 12.5 (prior to the introduction of Generative Remove), Content-Aware Remove takes about the same amount of time.

If you use Heal or Clone mode instead, which should do a pretty good job with dust spots, copying will go much, much faster.

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