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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
January 16, 2025
Question

P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

  • January 16, 2025
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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

 

439 replies

Belly63
Participant
May 28, 2026

Hello,

Just used the people distraction tool, unfortunately was unsuccessful.  Whilst it immediately identified and removed the person it left behind a white background image of the person, maybe it’s me but not sure. 

Thanks and regards

Stuart

robertsmx
Participant
May 26, 2026

People removal tool was working fine (as good as it gets) until last few weeks. Now, it won’t detect people that it used to (most aren’t selected, handful are). Anyone else with the issue?

JJTS
Participant
May 25, 2026

Desde la última actualización, cuando busco personas aparece el mensaje:
“Se ha producido un error inesperado, por lo que la solicitud no ha podido completarse”

¿Me ocurre solo a mi?

Gracias

stadis
Participant
May 22, 2026

While a great idea, this function removed the people but leaves behind dark shadows where the people once were. Having the people there would be better than having those dark shadows.

foxtrot_king
Participant
May 18, 2026

I have tried “Remove Reflections” in Pshop/Camera Raw Filter on two paintings with glass. Both failed to remove my reflection but I had much better luck on “Remove People” although the feature still needs improvement. 

Participating Frequently
May 19, 2026

Sometimes when removing people reflections it is difficult to know if AI is selecting people or reflections. I just came back from a bus tour in New Zealand. A lot of pictures thru bus window. Refections does a pretty good job of removing reflections from inside bus. But I also found out that reflections also helps remove sun flare and the glass itself by increasing the contrast. Most all pictures were shot with Iphone 15 pro with DNG files. Raw AI features work as expected for DNG. However HEIC files AI features did not. Denoise is one thing that does not work on HEIC files yet. 

MissusSmith
Participant
May 13, 2026

It does a great job with the people it selects, but if often misses people that I think are distracting.  I’d like more control over who it selects.

Participating Frequently
May 17, 2026

I agree. Sometimes Lightroom Classic selects people further away and misses people that are closer to me. What would be ideal is that the app finds people and has an add selection so I can click on additional people that the app missed. As it is now, I have to go to the removal tool and complete the people deletions. Even though AI is doing a pretty good job of filling background, sometimes I have to leave people in because the background fill is messed up and looks really bad.

Participating Frequently
May 8, 2026

this misses many people in images. Photoshop is much better

Known Participant
May 7, 2026

This is very disappointing.  Works pretty well in LRC, the selection was perfect; however, removal of distracting people left a divot that needed fixing so I went to photoshop to do the removal.  The remove tool was completely worthless.  Could not find “distracting people, selected one arm and part of a bed on the opposite side of the image.  Left weird shadows on the wall where the people were, (when people were selected manually) left the same divot in the baby and the selection was horrible when selected using AI.   So I went to camera raw.  Selection was almost as good as LRC; however, it still left a divot in the baby and more weird shadows.  We need a way to add to selection when using this, especially in PS as that was the worst selection.  I guess it’s too much to hope that AI can detect a face and make it round when removing distractions rather than jagged….  I also expected PS to be more seemless in the selection process and it was the most difficult, non-intuitive of all.  I don’t need software that makes life more difficult.

crsuvarna
Participant
May 5, 2026

Amazing tool , needs little tweaking , keep up the good work

Participating Frequently
May 4, 2026

Buongiorno, in camera raw il sistema di riconoscere le persone va perfezionato, a volte non riconosce nessuno . E aggiungo in PS cerotto elimina è troppo lento va migliorato . grazie