Definitely, but if so, only combined with a keystroke - Ctrl, Alt or something. I have to revove tons of fine hair spreading around on ears etc with a fine brush, having that auto fill might be catastrophic ... View more

What I forgot to mention: when selecting on any of my 3 machines (i7-9850H, 128 RAM, Quadro RTX 3000; 2x Xeon e5-2667, 128 RAM, Quadro M5000; AMD FX 8350, 32 RAM, GTX 980; all Win 10 x64) the selecting tool likes to stop working until I apply the edit. I can, after selecting the first are, only to a straight line or dot, with some delay, or not brush anymore period. After commiting the edit, it works again.  ... View more

Thanks a lot for your input and explanations - also, very much appreciated. Still, there's the semantics between "remove" and "replace". Yes, in fact, when I remove an object, it is practically being replaced by an "empty" background. Visually, it has bee removed. And that's how I,  and apparently many others, would interpret the term, on linguistic grounds. I don't want to nitpick around this any further, but that's like picking the eraser tool and instead, it paints over the erased item - you can't see it anymore, it has been erased.   I have followed all those suggestions and postings thoroughly, all the input I could get. A few easy examples: I shot an event recently that had lots of messy clutter in the background. A remote control on a wall, a metal rod leaning against the wall, roughly as thick as a thumb, a water bottle lying on a chair behind a laptop, a water bottle standing in front of the projection wall, a bluetooth speaker standing in the same area, an espresso machine as well.       Single brush stroke remove always worked for: both water bottles (even the one behind the laptop on the chair, which I didn't expect at all, complicated as opposed to a BT speaker on a white cabinet in front of a white wall) the remote    Single brush stroke remove sometimes worked for: metal rod - it was frequently just being made thinner, skewed, tapered, a dark blotch. All those images very very similar, on some it worked on first try. Eventually, after deleting the remove event and retrying (always 1 stroke, form inside the frame to outside and all the way down), the rod disappeared   Area removal never worked for the BT speaker and coffee machine. I selected an area 2-3 times the size of the item for the BT speaker and encompassing all shadows and more for the espresso machine. I always got a smaller/different BT speaker (or "some object") and the same result for the espresso machine, sometimes a colorful flower vase or some fantasy objects. The bottle, standing in exactly the same area on the same piece of furniture disappeared immediately. I repeatedly tried removing the object that just didn't want to go, thoroughly painting over 3-4 times in one stroke, not to miss a bit. Not a chance. In Photoshop, I would have the adjacent empty area, copy, paste, blend, gone.   That's why I'd prefer "Remove" and "Replace" separated and unambiguous. ... View more

I was trying to be ironic. Apparently, according to a previous posting, all this comes down to protecting children. Which is understandable, but badly executed.  In Photoshop, I didn't experience problems - I just tried, downloading a half n4ked man & bikini woman and saw no issues, so maybe this is a temporary thing in LR?   ... View more

He could be a very mature looking child, I'm guessing...  Have you tried to paint over the person and then replace the layer? ... View more

Thanks for the links!  I've also exhausted various YouTube content that didn't work for much simpler assignments, thus looked and sounded to me like influencer marketing, using specific images that in fact do work. I'm not complaining about outsiders like you doing Adobe's job, just about the fact this is even necessary. Without said outsiders, users would be lost. If at least Adobe themselves would link to content that does have correct information! I have, in fact, literally wasted years on blogs and YT (and also paid learning resources, as well as during my studies...) learning retouching technique that was simply BS all along, so I'm always wary.  Adobe Help alone is full of deprecated or imprecise info.  ... View more

Since it's called remove and not replace, remove should be the only thing it does.   It's nice we get to drive traffic on the Lightroomqueen Blog, why are there no Adobe resources with clear instructions? They should know best.... ... View more

Judging by today's apparent standards, it's absolutely, totally s3x1st and exploiting people who reluctantly took on a job they hate. Yes, I was being ironic. But take into account the bias AI has in general and each and everyone being pushed into either using it or perishing on the cemetary of yonder. Kids at school using Chat GPT to maximise their leisure time will automatically "write" biased content, thus unwanted opinions or "information" are being "rephrased" properly. And since your image may  or may not display a child in a wig and lots of makeup, like in Bad Grandpa, it can automatically be filtered out under said pretense. That is exactly why it is still very important to have good Photoshop skills - or not even. Generative fill in places is a mere joke that can be surpassed even by average skills.   As I alluded to before - have you tried a temporary paintover on the "child"? ... View more

My words. Remove and Replace should semantically be different! ... View more

Just an idea - have you guys, if you really, REALLY need those nudes removed for the great background, thought about quickly painting over the nude to make it unrecognizable, then try again? If it's just a shape with black splotches  all over, it should work - imo. Haven't tried nudes so far.  ... View more

What I don't understand is the semantics of the tool. There should be a "Remove" and a "Replace" tool then. Sometimes, I have to go through the 3 output variations just to find a perfectly removed item on Nr.3. "Remove" should be unambiguous to the AI. Other than that, it's coming along nicely. As opposed to "Generative Expand" in PS, which is a waste of time & resources most of the time, but that's another topic! ... View more