P: (AI) Remove Power Lines, Overhead Cables, and Wires

[StanPinchukPhoto]

Love the new feature for AI distractions of people and reflections.. Lets expand on that!!

As a wedding photographer I am constantly removing power lines, stop signs, or just signs in general, exit lights.. It would HUGE if these were added as additional AI options for distraction removal. Feels like it would be a fairly easy addition. 

Posted a screenshot as an example.. AI generative fill defintely takes care of it no problem but would save time if we didn't need to manually select it. 

[nissanh31173825]

Hello,

How do I Remove Electric Lines in images in lightroom CC?

Nissan

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[nissanh31173825]

Hello,

How do I Remove Electric Lines in images in lightroom CC?

Someone wrote me that it is possiable only in Photoshop, is it true?

I like to take street photography and in all cities of the world there are electrical wires for supply and trains which is very disturbing.

Thanks in advance,

Nissan

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[radzmar]

Lightroom has cloning an healing tools you can use. How, depends on you individual image. There are many tutorial available in the WWW you can learn from. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/enhanced-spot-removal.html

https://www.lightroompresets.com/blogs/pretty-presets-blog/79936260-6-tips-for-cloning-in-lightroom

[Just Shoot Me]

If you have LR Classic (There is No more LR CC. There is Lightroom the cloud centric version and LR Classic the traditional version) you have access to Photoshop. Photoshop would be the better tool to remove the wires from an image.

[cmgap]

Hello - if you share  your image I can do a screen capture showing you how.

[Ian Lyons]

It is feasible to use the Heal/Clone tool in Lightroom but they're not as easy to use as the same tools in Photoshop. In particular, hard edges such as in below example require greater care with switching back and forth between the clone and heal tools. The reason being that the Lightroom heal tool, even with feather set to minimum, tends to pick up adjacent objects and creates a blurred fuz at hard edges. As such, it is often better to clone the wires at edges of builings, etc with as small a brush as possible then use the heal tool for the remainder.

Above being said, and as below example shows, it is possible to remove power lines etc in Lightroom.

[Rob_Cullen]

Using the Spot Tool in 'Heal' mode, it is helfpul to use the [Click : Shift-Click] method for straight lines.

[Click] the Brush once at the start of a line, then [Shift-click] the Brush at the end of the line- and you effectively brush straight along the line.

[nissanh31173825]

Dear,

[nissanh31173825]

Dear, 1St. thank u for the quick reply. 2Nd.- Sorry for the late reply. 3Rd.- I want to send u example of image, but I want to send on private (I do not have your address). I do not know how to share, I'm not a professional and I am an old guy. Thank u in advance, Nissan

[Just Shoot Me]

Just upload the image to Dropbox or the like and post a public link to it in a reply to this discussion.

[nissanh31173825]

this is the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/opb92zfu4xehob4/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%92%D7%9F%2092.jpg?dl=0

[Bob Somrak]

I just removed the top wire in Lightroom with about 20 different brush strokes and it looked great but on this photo with all the wires I would only do it in Photoshop. My technique for wires in Lightroom is to start from the left side and use many shorter brush strokes and always swipe from right to left with the brush. This way I can overlap the previous brush stroke if needed without Lightroom trying to select the previous brush stroke.

[nissanh31173825]

Thank you Bob, but it is to many actions and too long time for many images. I look for shorter one. see my post to the world: "It's time with all the world-wide knowledge of computers and Adobe in particular that there will be one action in downloading the power cords (which bothers and annoys any photographer) in the photos. How about who can lift the idea??

[nissanh31173825]

can u send me the link?

[cmgap]

The image you uploaded is complex – the wires are running through  windows, building textures and shadows. I would use photoshop for this (it would take me 20-30 minutes to do  it perfectly) and tip my hat to anyone that would do  it in another  app. This IMHO is a solid example of  when to use Photoshop  for retouching.

[nissanh31173825]

Thank u. I have too many pictures to do this job. If it takes u 20-30 minutes, for me it will take more. I know with Photoshop how, but I'm looking for a faster one. Nissan

[GoldingD]

Third party plug-in/alternate post processing software

Perfect Eraser in the ON1 Photo RAW 2019

[Alex24426344lyfy]

I think it would help speed up the workflow slightly, even if it is just the 'remove wires and cables' portion of the tool. Generative remove doesn't seem to do the job as cleanly as Photoshop is able to. I had a batch of photos that were plagued by a couple of pesky powerline wires, and opening them in Photoshop just slowed me down a bit. Not a totally huge obstacle to overcome, just a slight pain in the neck. I'd be elated if the 2-3 clicks it takes with the find/remove distraction tool was included into the LrC workflow. 

[JohanElzenga]

Questions like these are often asked, but never answered. Adobe does not comment on future developments.

[johnrellis]

"'remove wires and cables' ... Generative remove doesn't seem to do the job as cleanly as Photoshop is able to."

In general, LR Generative Remove can do just as quick and good a job as PS Generative Remove, since they both use Adobe Firefly. But prior to LR 14.1, there were some quirks in the LR Remove that required you to apply Remove before cropping, which particularly affected removing objects like cables that touched the edges of photos -- this led many people to believe mistakenly that PS Remove was better than LR Remove. 

However, cropping before Remove is no longer required in LR 14.1 -- have you upgraded to 14.1 yet?

Also, Uncheck Detect Objects (on by default in LR 14) -- it doesn't work well, especially with skinny objects like cables and along the edges of photos.

If this doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot). With nearly every one of the several dozen problem photos posted here, including many with cables to be removed, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

[curt.gallery]

I dislike conspiracies about these things but it is such an obvious omission. It is a photography tool and their main app for that is Lightroom. It might be a reason for photographers to keep buying Photoshop?

[JohanElzenga]

Photoshop is part of the Photography plan, so there is no 'they must keep buying Photoshop' incentive for Adobe when it comes to adding tools to Lightroom Classic.

[curt.gallery]

Adobe added Distraction removal for people and relfection in Lightroom which is cool, but not wires and cables which is still in Photoshop requiring coverting your images to Tiff and doing a round trip from Photoshop? How does this make any sense from a UX perspective? Someone is making these decisions and that one would keep me up at night. Objectively it makes no sense. 

[dj_paige]

Objectively, it makes sense to someone.

[JohanElzenga]

The current distraction removal options in Lightroom come from Camera Raw. Camera Raw also does not (yet) have wires and cables removal, that is an option in Photoshop itself. I assume the reasons are technical, not somebody flipping a coin.