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P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

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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

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jampie1946

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Persons after a fence are not selected, although they are recognizable .

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Shruti_Deshpande

Participant

I have like the distraction removal of people, but whay just people, when we want to use photoshop to detect may be distracting animal or even an object. I would request you to have this on your roadmap

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mzphoto

Participating Frequently

What does NOT work well is that we have absolutely no control to finesse whatever selection lightroom deems ''correct." Meaning, not only does it often select the person, but it selects a whole bunch of nearby objects that is not removed, but rather completely altered to have absolutely nothing to do with the original image nor anything one would ever wish to include.
PLEASE allow us to fine tune your selections, erase bits we don't want 'removed' so that we needn't waste time undoing and redoing over and over again.

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ThierryH7727272

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@mzphoto

I do agree with your comment. I have suggested at different occasions to Adobe and the community to include the Lr/LrC/CR masking options to the Remove (and replace) tool, so that better selections would make better and more effective results.
Why not make the masking tools the first step to more changes in Lightroom? Even Lens Blur could benefit from it. But start with (all of) the Remove tools.

Kind regards,

Thierry

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Samuel_Caracushansky7598

Participant

Impresive!

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Anonymous

Hi, A Selection Brush tool would be great to add to this feature so I can determine which person is distracting.

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DKW Images

Participant

This is an excellent addition. Amazing how many updates you have provided recently. Much appreciated!

The_1_Photog

Participant

This feature is working better than I anticipated! It is quite valuable when photographing landscapes with people in the foreground. Knowing this, I no longer have to stand and wait, hoping that the crowds will disappear!

Ron

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ThierryH7727272

Inspiring

Hi,

I just installed LrC version 14.5.1 and tried the features after a failing debut in v. 14.4. The Distraction Removal of People: the red overlay with the pins appeared on only one image. I don't get any overlay on most pictures, so I can only remove all of the found people.
Anyway when closing and reopening LrC, all removed people reappear after a second, i.e. on all pictures independly of above scenarios. The changes are however applied when exporting the pictures. This is the same behavior as in v. 14.4.

Best regards,
Thierry Hoornaert
Canon R5 MkII

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Paul Starr

Participant

I used distraction removal (in PS RAW) for a man (full length) partially behind a group of three people. It removed the man but left just a cartoonish face of a different man with a large moustache instead.

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mar36464116hwil

Participant

Excelente por el momento !!

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