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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

 

475 replies

Participant
October 25, 2025

Finding this v helpful,especially with smaller people in background, but results are too varied fro larger people i.e. nearer the forground. When a person needs removing who is partly overlaying a main subject you want to keep then could it be worked on please that the AI fill of the space is more accurate as there are v random things put in place.

Thanks

Participant
October 25, 2025

when removing a person on a field of grass, you can still tell where the person was, as the area results slightly out of focus.

Wolfgang Hünefeld
Participant
October 16, 2025

Unfortunately, removing unwanted people or those distracting from the subject on the beach always left ghostly shadows.

Participant
October 15, 2025

I used the people remove tool involving images at night and during normal daylight hours. I used images with multiple people in the image and some with single individuals. The tool has difficulty locating all the people. if more than one group or individual is in the image the auto select typically does not select or find all the people and will only highlight a partical to remove. I attempted a secondary search on the same images to see if the people missed would be found and removed and the tool failed to remove on secondary searches. 

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Participant
October 14, 2025

Didn't identify background people. However, did remove a small, distracting item in the foreground.

Participant
October 8, 2025

Cela n'a pas très bien fonctionné, la suppression de personne sur l'image a généré des parties de personnes

Participant
October 4, 2025

Three people were selected - only two were removed.

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Participant
October 4, 2025

Need the ability to try again.  I have pictures with many people in one section that the tool is not identifying for removal.  Maybe a way to isolate the area to search, add/subtract like other masking tools.

Matt Fitt
Participating Frequently
October 4, 2025

Respectfully, what is the point of a tool that claims to remove distracting people, but replaces them with strange, ugly substitutes that are more distracting than the original?   Yes, I know, it will get better. And I look forward to that day.  But it's not quite ready for prime time, just yet.

 

Also, as others have already stated, needs more brushable, alterable selections, and like other AI generations, we should be provided with several options.

Participating Frequently
October 15, 2025

Seriously.  I don't even know what it replaced this person with.

 

Participating Frequently
October 15, 2025

Looks like a kid with a foot sticking out of the forehead.

Participant
October 3, 2025

People Removal generally works great for me, but the detection of annoying folks does not always pick up all I'd like to remove. Can a brush be added to enabvle manual selection of persons to be deleted.