Slime trail from remove tool

@emily_cecile This is a good place to report bugs, but that's not its primary purpose. It's also a great place to share experiences. Mostly its a user-to-user support forum. My apologies if I misread your intent.

We all learn from each other. No one knows everything, and we all have different experiences. The day someone is so "expert" that they can't learn something, they're over the hill and should consider retirement.

What is the point of these boards? Is it to surface possible bugs to make the product better? That's what I thought. Thats what I came here to do.

I know the OP and shes a high end retoucher at a well known studio... i dont think she needs any tutorials 😆

And I don't think this is an issue of using the correct tool for the job, she's posting is about a well known issue with the remove tool and gen fill that will hopfully be corrected some day as it can be a usfull for certain things. 

Certainly, if you use the wrong tool you can create a mess, but used correctly the AI tools save a huge amount of time. If you're not saving time, dig into a few tutorials (Colin Smith and Jesus Martinez have excellent videos on YouTube) and put in more practice.

What happens when you highlight the yellow tint and remove that? Or turn off "Auto" and use no GenAI?

Looking at what you're dealing with, I think content-aware fill would have been a better choice, using one of the healing tools or even the Patch tool. I've cut hours out of my retouching workflow with the Remove tool, but I wouldn't have used it in your situation. The older tools are better, simpler, and quicker when you don't have a complex removal.

This is an issue with all the adobe ai products... Its not the best solution for comerical work when quality matters, it can end up taking more time to make a generated plate / cleanup layer work than just building from scratch. 

I've done it exactly the way you point out, and it is still an issue.

Rather than apply the tool directly to the layer, use a blank layer just above. Turn on the "Sample all layers" checkbox. This often avoid minor artifacts like your yellow streak. This is good practice in any case, because it's non-destructive. (That said, you can apply the Remove tool a second time or the Spot Healing Brush to remove the streak.)