Adobe Lightroom Gains AI-Based Generative Remove Tool for Eliminating Unwanted Objects

[MacRumors]

Adobe today updated its Lightroom software for the iPad and Mac with Generative Remove, an AI-powered feature that can remove any element from a photo with a single click. Generative Remove eliminates unwanted objects in images non-destructively, intelligently matching the removed area with AI-generated content that matches the surrounding photo.

Generative Remove is able to fix everything from an unwanted reflection in water to wrinkles in a tablecloth in food photography. It works with complicated backgrounds, and can be used for removing distractions from images or retouching photos.

According to Adobe, users can expect to see "high-quality, realistic and stunning results." The Generate Remove feature is powered by Adobe Firefly, generative AI features that have previously been available in Photoshop. Generative Remove is available today as an early access feature for Lightroom for mobile, desktop, iPad, Web, and Classic.

Along with Generative Remove, Adobe is also adding automatic presets for Lens Blur, a feature that is able to add blur effects to any part of a photograph, plus Lens Blur includes improved subject detection. Other improvements include HDR optimization, a streamlined mobile toolbar on the iPad, and instant access to photo libraries in the iPad and Mac apps for faster editing.

The new features are free for existing Lightroom users, with Lightroom access available starting at $9.99 per month.

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[Onimusha370]

For the mods/article writer - might be worth including the fact that they've added support for the neural engine on AS Macs when AI denoising! Quite topical given AI stuff lately

 

[turbineseaplane]

This should be handy after divorces and breakups

Click + Delete the Ex!

 

[Poppleropples]

Denoise AI for Lightroom on the iPads pleaaase!

 

[Blackstick]

Nice improvement. A little more special sauce coming over from Photoshop.

 

[Onimusha370]

Denoise AI for Lightroom on the iPads pleaaase!

Agreed - this is the main thing missing to allow me to take the iPad seriously as a LRCC machine!

 

[MrGimper]

This should be handy after divorces and breakups

Click + Delete the Ex!

Yep, she makes money disappear from your bank accounts

You make her disappear from photos.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Yep, she makes money disappear from your bank accounts

You make her disappear from photos.

We cope how we cope, what can I say

 

[bradman83]

Luminar Neo has a great feature that can remove lens/sensor dust spots in a single click. I'd love to see Adobe copy this so I don't have to round-trip into Photoshop to fire up Luminar to do the removal. Right now it looks like I would have to still click on each dust spot.

 

[jb310]

I can imagine this being popular for Instagram; it's an easy way to make those crowded beaches look more "exclusive." 😂

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

All these degenerative apps look great in marketing demos and edited YouTube videos but 80% of the time when you use them yourself the results are WTF levels of entertainment.

 

[steggerwoof]

Luminar Neo has a great feature that can remove lens/sensor dust spots in a single click. I'd love to see Adobe copy this so I don't have to round-trip into Photoshop to fire up Luminar to do the removal. Right now it looks like I would have to still click on each dust spot.

Or you could clean your sensor 🤣

 

[SmugMaverick]

So Google magic eraser 👍

Apple is the last one left, lets pray for something at WWDC.

 

[freezelighter]

Literally years of my life as NatGeo photographer and Olympus (now OM Digital Solutions) ambassador. Endless sleepless nights spent with Photoshop and dozens of other tools. All can be done now on the toilet within seconds...

 

[twintin]

This should be handy after divorces and breakups

Click + Delete the Ex!

And paste in the new one. 😊

 

[twintin]

Seeing forward to make my own fake family album. 😊

 

[Mousse]

This should be handy after divorces and breakups

Click + Delete the Ex!

Yosef approves. He has deleted half the Party from the history books.

 

[coolfactor]

"Generative Remove"

Well, that's it, we've officially crossed the threshold of insanity. To generate is to "make" something. Are we now "making nothing"? Have we broken the laws of physics?

 

[mdatwood]

"Generative Remove"

Well, that's it, we've officially crossed the threshold of insanity. To generate is to "make" something. Are we now "making nothing"? Have we broken the laws of physics?

It's generating what should be in place after the removal

 

[miric]

It works beautifully only in demo clips. Adobe should acknowledge this feature produces s..tty results.

 

[tlnargi]

Does this mean we can plug an external drive into our iPad, edit off of it and be done? No cloud needed? You could travel with your catalog....

 

[Onimusha370]

It works beautifully only in demo clips. Adobe should acknowledge this feature produces s..tty results.

Been working fine for me today

 

[neuropsychguy]

"Generative Remove"

Well, that's it, we've officially crossed the threshold of insanity. To generate is to "make" something. Are we now "making nothing"? Have we broken the laws of physics?

It's generating what's behind the removed pixels. It's also using a generative "AI" model (Adobe Firefly) to do it. Firefly is a generative machine learning model. If you use a generative model to remove something and replace what's removed with something else, it's not a stretch to call it "Generative Remove".

 

[Plutonius]

I believe that Luminar Neo has had this for awhile and a life time license can be purchased for people that don't want a subscription.

 

[nottorp]

Stalin would have loved this... he liked to remove (assassinated) former colleagues from photos...