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16 December 2025 It's Lightroom update time again. There are some new features, as well as bug fixes, new cameras, lenses and tethering.
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Clean up shirt
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Use the Object Selection Tool to select the shirt, then use Generative Fill and enter black shirt.
To build on that: This means you'll have to use Photoshop, because Lightroom does not have Generative Fill. It does have AI Remove, but you cannot enter prompts in that tool.
An alternative that does work in Lightroom Classic is to create a mask with the Person Selection Tool, select the shirt, create the mask and use Curves. Drag the upper right corner of the curve all the way down so you'll get a horizontal curve at the bottom. It does mean you get a solid black, no shirt detail (like wrinkles) at all.
An alternative that does work in Lightroom Classic is to create a mask with the Person Selection Tool, select the shirt, create the mask and use Curves. Drag the upper right corner of the curve all the way down so you'll get a horizontal curve at the bottom. It does mean you get a solid black, no shirt detail (like wrinkles) at all.
Sounds like your mask was inverted. Invert it once more.
I selected clothes under the Person Mask Options and then created a mask of his top. It's shown in the green overlay color I selected.
When I take the right all the way down in curves, I end up just seeing the green overlay and everything else is black whether I invert it or not.
When I take the right all the way down in curves, I end up just seeing the green overlay and everything else is black whether I invert it or not.
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Perhaps post a full-resolution screenshot of the photo in Develop, including the Masking panel.
That sounds like you are changing the global curve, not the curve inside the mask panel. A screenshot would indeed help a lot.
Yes, it's as I expected. The Curves panel you are changing is the global curves panel (that includes parametric curves, the curves in the mask panel does not have a parametric curve). Scroll up in the second screenshot to get to the mask panel (scroll down a bit in your first screenshot).
Thank you Johan! I should have known! I will take care of it in LRC when I get home later today. I was playing with the image in LRC web and was wondering how I make his top completely black. I noticed in this image that there is some white along the edge.
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Those white edges are a limitation of these masks. Masks are not perfect and unfortunately there are no options to fine tune a mask edge like you can in Photoshop.
You can try to improve the mask using a brush.
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