Generative fill in psd not removing subjects - but filling in with unprompted content

[KTA6]

I'm using Photoshop 2024 (25.5.1) on an iMac (M1 chip, running Ventura 13.5.2). I'm trying to remove a figure (a woman), from a number of others sitting on a bench. The person to be removed is at the end and the bench behind extends a bit to her right, with another individual to her left.
I've seleceted the subject to be removed a various ways a number times, and followed the instructions to leave the prompt field blank and was expecting the subject to be removed, but she keeps getting replaced by a small boy. The only choices are other little boys. 
Any tips?

[kglad]

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[KTA6]

Just replied to your email; Thanks - I was on the Adobe Community page and saw lots of posts, but no way to make a post myself - not sure how I wound up in the wrong spot

[kglad]

@KTA6, no problem.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

@KTA6 you have to give some context/prompt to help the AI. Hoenstly I don't subscribe to the suggestion of not adding "remove" to a prompt - especially when that is what you are trying to do.

The other thing to realize is Gen Fill is a tool not a solution, while sometimes its the only tool you need, in most cases some other tools, like the Remove tool help.

This was with the selected person and a "remove person" prompt:

This was the result. Not perfect but a good start.

A few minutes with the Stamp and Remove tool gives you this:

Obviously it can be improved with more care but you get the idea.

 

[KTA6]

thanks for the tip - I did not add a prompt, so maybe I'll try that - though I jsut spent a few hours wrangling with this image - I was able to get to something similar your first image, but it didn't duplicate the blue cushion. I'll try it again (even with all the time expended, still not 100% happy with my results.)

[KTA6]

OK, I just tried it your way and got another little boy stuck on the end, so I tried just "remove" with the selection of the woman still active. btw, I did an imperfect selection, but pretty close - I did't get every little detail and though grabbing a few pixels of the background would help - but on the second try, I got a little girl ... I don't know how you are getting such better results than what I'm doing. very frutrating

[Spas K.]

Tried it myself as well, got a boy a few times, and a few times - a dog 🙂 Every try is a bit different. I always use "remove" as the prompt too. Eventually got just a pair of legs which was workable. You can then only select that and generate again. Combined with a clone stamp, worked pretty well for ~5-10 minutes worth of time.

For the selection - Object Selection gives near perfect selections like 90% of the time, it's a one click here.

[KTA6]

thanks for the tip - looks good. it took a while, but eventually got most of the image gone, but weird artifacts which did take a fair bit of retouching to fix up.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

After I made the selection of the woman, I always go to Select Menu>Modify>Expand and expand the selection outward a few pixels to grab the surrounding area. My prompt was simply "remove woman".

[KTA6]

Thanks Kevin! I like that tip - to use Expand, makes sense and I'll try it next time.