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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
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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

Nothings Ville
Participating Frequently
November 15, 2025

Remove distracting people doesn't know the difference between people and a house! Yes, it selected two distracting people, though as they were about half a mile away in the distance, I wouldn't call them distracting. Nice job.

 

However, it also selected a house which was about 30 feet above the people. And what was a house and certainly wasn't distracting, was replaced with a building of some discription which was distracting. It didn't even fit in with the surrounding buildings.

 

All the AI apps don't seem to be very good. What they produce is generally very poor in quality and bares little resemblance to what is asked or if left blank of the surrounding area of the object it is removing. Slower, but manual is best. And no removal of houses when selecting people for removal.

 

I thought I'd try again, and I did, twice with the same house again selected!

 

 

Participant
November 15, 2025

Just tried this for the first time. It worked correctly in a complex environment.

Participant
November 12, 2025

Removal worked perfectly but left a cutout-- where the person is masked out the exposure is too high. Less important, the carpet is too bright

Participant
November 12, 2025

Works only randomly here and there. Not often good enough.

Participating Frequently
November 11, 2025

seems to be working better, but if the people/distractions are too close to the subject, it alters the subject as well...

Participant
November 11, 2025

ACR去除多余人物出错无法完成请求

Participant
November 11, 2025

The tool is Ok but has limitations particularly if the people are grouped and overlapping with other background.

 

One thing would be nice to have is a deselect option for parts it has identified, like on the normal tool where you can un-select by painting over the selction. If you have a person you want to keep but to remove others neearby it doesn't seem possible to deselct the subject person

Participant
November 11, 2025

A identificação de partes da pessoa, por exemplo quando sentada em um banco, o programa tem dificuldade em reconhecer todas as partes, exemplo, remove a cabeça e tronco, mas fica a perna... Também sinto que pode melhorar, com uma função de indicar onde está as pessoas que quer remover, muitas vezes identifica a pessoa que quer manter e a que quer remover não identifica. Mas de resto a ferramenta é incrível. Deixarei anexo um exemplo da pessoa no banco de igreja, para ver o que acontece!

Raphael Borges
Participant
November 11, 2025

No exemplo, note que as pernas do Sr de cinza ficaram na imagem!

Raphael Borges
Participant
November 10, 2025

I was shooting a car, and a passerby was visible above the roof. Lightroom's generative AI easily detected the distracting partial head peeking out from behind the vehicle, cloned it out perfectly, and seamlessly filled the background. Love the new feature!

Participant
November 10, 2025

This feature needs refining.  My experience is small children in school portrait sessions. The best shot may be with an adult hand in the shot to steady a toddler or infant. Sometimes it cannot detect the distraction but most times it completely distorts the background when removing the distraction.