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fantastic_Eclipse4861
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September 17, 2025
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Lightroom classic generative ai question?

  • September 17, 2025
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when using generative ai on an image is it permanently stored on adobes servers? i ask because I keep getting generative ai failure notice with something about guidelines in the message when just removing people out of a photo

Correct answer richardplondon

I don't think there is any issue of Adobe's servers here: with LR Classic the image processing happens only inside your local computer and that is where the result of generative AI is also stored.

 

Without seeing the particular message it is hard to be sure, but one issue to do with "guidelines" happens when you have applied a 'retouch' tool (that has used bits of your image content to infill / to patch an area) and then meanwhile changed the perspective appearance of the whole image. For example, by using "Guided Upright" - or, there are other tools that can raise the same issue.

 

The prompt may be warning you that an infill / patch which used to match up seamlessly with its surrounding image content, may no longer do so. In that case this infill / patch should now be updated (AI generation should be refreshed) so that it is again sure to show seamlessly within the picture.

 

You won't see this same prompt with simple cloning or spot healing, since in those cases the patching happens dynamically working from the live image only. AI generated retouch by contrast is not dynamic: it makes and then stores a static result at a certain moment - which can, accordingly, later become outdated.

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fantastic_Eclipse4861Author
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September 26, 2025

thanks for the replys everyone, its has helped me understand alot 🙂

johnrellis
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September 21, 2025

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"I keep getting generative ai failure notice with something about guidelines in the message when just removing people out of a photo"

 

There have been many complaints about this.

 

To see the "guidelines" (rules), click the miniscule "?" icon in the upper-right corner of the Remove panel and then click Generative AI User Guidelines.

Adobe's AI is a repressed Victorian and often faints at the slightest hint of skin or small children. In geek speak, it has a high false-positive rate for adult and child p o r n (not allowed to type that in the forum), making it unsuitable for many kinds of innocuous professional use.

 

Edward Weston wouldn't have been able to use Generative AI!
https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/10115/the-edward-weston-nude-that-took-photography-to-new-heights

 

For example:

 

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    September 17, 2025

    No. It's not stored on the Adobe servers, only locally in 'catalogname.lrcat-data'. The guidelines say things about nudity, so if you try to remove a naked person (or almost naked) then you may get this. I've never seen this in Lightroom Classic, but it is a known issue in Photoshop with Generative Fill.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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      richardplondonCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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      September 17, 2025

      I don't think there is any issue of Adobe's servers here: with LR Classic the image processing happens only inside your local computer and that is where the result of generative AI is also stored.

       

      Without seeing the particular message it is hard to be sure, but one issue to do with "guidelines" happens when you have applied a 'retouch' tool (that has used bits of your image content to infill / to patch an area) and then meanwhile changed the perspective appearance of the whole image. For example, by using "Guided Upright" - or, there are other tools that can raise the same issue.

       

      The prompt may be warning you that an infill / patch which used to match up seamlessly with its surrounding image content, may no longer do so. In that case this infill / patch should now be updated (AI generation should be refreshed) so that it is again sure to show seamlessly within the picture.

       

      You won't see this same prompt with simple cloning or spot healing, since in those cases the patching happens dynamically working from the live image only. AI generated retouch by contrast is not dynamic: it makes and then stores a static result at a certain moment - which can, accordingly, later become outdated.

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