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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
July 22, 2025

Worked great finding and removing distracting person

Participant
July 22, 2025

Picked up one person on pheriphery of photograph but missed all the main distractons - six people in plain view!

Participant
July 22, 2025

Hi,

I tried out the new distraction removal, it worked pretty well on my photos, but it doesnt pick up people behind something if they dont have legs, see photo I edited from a bird of prey session, it took out someones feet to the right but not the lady behind the bird. But overall very pleased with it.

Participant
July 21, 2025

I am finding it works well! I also like the ability to deselect distractions.

Participant
July 21, 2025

used remove distracting people tool the person it detected was replaced by another person????

Participant
July 21, 2025

I tried using it but its not working

 

Participant
July 21, 2025

Using Lightroom or Photoshop, the system does not recognize people in the photo.  In one photo, there is one adult and 5 children in the foregound and numerous people in the background.  The system doesn't recognize any of them. It only picks up the elbow of someone on the edge of the photo. When trying different edit options, it also creates weird looking figures. In another photo, it recognizes a few people, removes them and then fills some of the area with something irrelevant. Usually, this is failing badly. 

MyrtleBeachPhotographer
Participating Frequently
July 20, 2025

It's changing the FACES OF BABIES in parent's arms.  This is atrocious and disturbing.

Participant
July 20, 2025

The tool occasionally replaces people with an object instead of blanding in with the background. How do you avoid this? Other times works well

Participant
July 19, 2025

When people detection misses some people would be good to have an ADD/Brush feature. WE can subtract people by usng the pins but we cannot add. That would be most useful if we could