If you, like me, use Lightroom to manage and edit your photos, you’ll for sure come across a situation where you really wanted something removed from your photo because it was just annoying or you couldn’t get another angle for whatever reason on the subject. Yet, you found either the lamp post in the way, or there were too many people, etc.

I believe in the authenticity of an image. But sometimes, you can wait for hours to hope that your main subject would be free of distractions, only to find out that just before you want to take the “perfect” shot, something happens. And this happens more often than not. Which can become quite frustrating. And I’m sure you’ll agree with me, and if I asked you right now if this ever happened to you, you’d say yes!

So what’s this new feature of Lightroom? Well, it does exactly what it promises. It utilizes AI to remove something annoying and makes sure the afterpicture looks like the distraction has never been there. You can see this example here on their website.

This is nothing short of amazing, but it also makes me ask a question. So far, we had to go to Photoshop to do either a content-aware fill, etc., but as of right now, Lightroom is given pretty amazing superpowers that I felt were only reserved for Photoshop users. This makes me wonder what powers Photoshop will be given if there would be a Photography plan with LR and LRC only, as there’s one for Photoshop and if the price structure will change.

As of right now, if you sign up for the CreativeCloud Photography plan, you’ll have a few choices available, and depending on what you’re looking for you now have these options:

Giving Lightroom some of those amazing AI powers that are quite useful is a wonderful thing to see, and I know that some of my photos have distractions in them that I couldn’t avoid. I’ll try to use the tool to see if the generative remove function will work well.

Let me know what you think of this feature in the Comments section below.