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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

Participant
August 7, 2025

It is not really helpful when you try to remove people and AI creates another people 

 

Participant
August 7, 2025

I tried this - it selected the distracting people in the background well, then when I went to "remove" them, all three options showed the people replaced with... different people! Whoops.

Participant
August 6, 2025
  • It would be helpful if you could edit the selection (Add/Subtract) for each pin individually.
  • Sometimes multiple individuals or groups of people are included in a single pin, so having a "Split Pin" function where the user can guide the AI to create multiple pins from a single pin would be helpful.  I suspect that would help the AI and it would allow the user to delete pins for people you don't want to remove.
  • Being able to select specific people, as opposed to selecting everybody would be good.  Perhaps a "Detect People" option in Remove where the user could highlight an individual to guide the AI?
  • Resolution, resolution, resolution!

Thanks, 

John Ashley Images

Known Participant
August 6, 2025

Clicking remove people often in fact adds other, weirdly formed people (as does the gen AI in the firstplace). There should be a way to specify that one wants something removed and the background regenerated rather than some random thing added.  

Participant
August 6, 2025

Removing people in Camera Raw 17.4.1
Sometimes it works perfectly, but sometimes it doesn't work at all. It would be nice to be able to do this in stages, starting with one person, then repeating the process by searching for distractions again. (Currently, you can't repeat the process while taking into account previous removals.

And perhaps being more precise and editing the selection with the brush would be more effective.
The selection is also too broad for a group of people when these people are separate and could be the subject of a separate group that could be removed or not.

Participant
August 5, 2025

My people often get replaced by a person who seems to be wearing weird horror movie masks! 

🌠✮ 𝒦𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓃 ✮🌠
Participant
August 5, 2025

it never find people and when it find someone the removel is so bad...

Participant
August 4, 2025

Strada labi, ja objekti ir atdaliti viens no otra (atrodas fona) , nestrada- tad kad cilveki ir viens aiz otra.

Participant
August 4, 2025

distraction tool didnt find all the people. 

Participant
August 3, 2025

some of the groups it just places other distracting groups vs removing them. No way to regenerate or add/remove sections.