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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 16, 2025
Question

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
July 30, 2025

Find it a little self-defeating that "distracting people" are most of the times replaced by similar—or rather: typically more out-of-context—and therefore even more distracting people rather than being removed based on background-aware analysis.

Known Participant
July 29, 2025

Only removes 2 people from the original NEF file of this shot.

Participant
July 29, 2025

It should remove the people and not replacing it with other stuff!

And often it can not detect any people! There is place for improvement!! You can do it better

Participant
July 29, 2025

As I try this, it seems to pick random people.  I usually want to add more people to be removed.  That would be a nice feature to add in here.

 

williamd28964456
Participating Frequently
July 28, 2025

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tried to remove two people and got this in return.

 

Participant
July 28, 2025

Utter Pish!!!

Participating Frequently
July 28, 2025

Removes more than the person in a High Res image. So not the best I'm afraid.

 

davidf38077000
Participant
July 28, 2025

Generally works well. Just used it on two photos with people on very edge and it left an element of the person on the edge, but closer to the edge of the photo. Easily removed with a crop, but wanted to mention it.  See screenshots below

 

Participating Frequently
July 27, 2025

The open passageway was inappropriately replaced by a door. Although this may be apparent from the composition of the image, it is undesirable (see attachments).

Participant
July 27, 2025

Sometimes it will remove distracting people only to put AI generated distracting people in their palce