Adobe’s Lightroom 9.6 introduced Prompt to Edit, an experimental feature that accepts a natural-language description of the change you want. Examples include cleaning a scene, changing a sky or more extensive transformations. The implementation uses Google’s Nano Banana model and may consume generative credits.
The important difference from classic Lightroom is that the AI can regenerate pixels, rather than only record nondestructive adjustments to exposure, tone or masking. That is useful for creative work but can introduce invented details. Keep the original and compare at 100% magnification.
The same release improves Reflection Removal for images taken through glass or over reflective surfaces. For a photographer, that quieter feature may be more valuable than a flashy generated sky.
A meaningful evaluation uses a real image and a measurable task. Compare conventional masking, Reflection Removal and Prompt to Edit on the same duplicate photo. Note speed, fidelity and any credit consumption before changing the normal workflow.
What to do: Update Lightroom via Creative Cloud, duplicate a travel photo with a reflection, and compare three cleanup methods without altering the original.