*Extracted from brief-2026-08-26.md. `` is a hard compliance requirement on every platform.*
The verdict is in its own model card.
A free Lightricks add-on removes people and vehicles from a shot and rebuilds the background behind them, keeping your framing and your camera move.
A clean plate isn't a feature
It's a job. There are artists whose whole week is plates and paint. The real question is which part of that week this actually takes.
The verdict is in their own manual
It works when the subject is a partial occluder, with real background visible around them. Explicitly out of scope when the subject fills frame.
And then it tells you what to do
For those shots, the model card recommends mask-based inpainting. Translation: when it gets hard, go do it the old way.
So this skill just got scarcer
Knowing on sight which shots it'll nail and which it'll quietly ruin. That read takes years. It doesn't come with the download.
The honest read
It took the easy half and left you the hard half, probably at the same rate. That's worth being angry about. It's also worth charging for.
What's the shot this would ruin?
Name the specific one from your own work.