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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 16, 2025
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P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

  • January 16, 2025
  • 373 replies
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Announcing a new feature now in Adobe Camera Raw (17.2) – Removal of Distracting People

Under the Remove dialog, under Distraction Removal, we have added an item called “People”.

 

This feature supports faster and easier detection and removal of distracting people in an image. It is offered as a Tech Preview in the Adobe Camera Raw Plugin-only and is available now. Please try it out and let us know what works well, what doesn’t work well, and anything that might improve the experience.

 

Thank you!

Peter Baust - Dir, Product Management

 

Posted by Rikk Flohr

 

373 replies

DEWild
Participant
February 1, 2026

For me it would be great to include human body parts in the “distracting people”. It would have made my life way easier. 

MapleBacon
Participant
January 31, 2026

I have tried this feature on iPad and my PC with LR Classic. Sometimes it works, sometimes it leaves ghosts. More often than not I get the ghosts, which si too bad because minus the light spot lef tbehind, it looks pretty good.

 

Participant
January 29, 2026

🙄הפנים נהרסו לחלוטין 

 

 

Participant
January 28, 2026

Tried it with person against snow; overall good job but missed the hand completely. Also, it would be nice to be able to add to or subtract from the selection.

Participant
November 20, 2025

First time I tried it and it worked great. Removed several unwanted people from photo

Participant
November 20, 2025

For the most part, I have been enjoying this feature but times it produce results like such.  In this case, it removed people, but then added a made up person.  Scratches my head 🙂

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Participant
November 20, 2025
need to improve
Participating Frequently
November 18, 2025

I wish that the remove distracting people offered the option to add to the selection.  The algorithm's choices of "distracting people" leaves out some that I would select and when you use the generative remove it doesn't do a very good job. 

Participant
November 17, 2025

Program does not remove all people.  One picture, people were behind a burned tree, quiet obvious.  Second picture, again obvious, coming from the side of the picture but removed two on the other side of the picture.

Participant
November 17, 2025

Not hugely effective on removing people from the background at a motorcycle show.