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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

 

557 replies

Inspiring
July 14, 2026

There are a lot of faults, but all in all, for what it does, it’s quite magic.  Those brought up on Photoshop will probably continue to do it that way, but I was brought up, so to speak, on LrC and find Ps a PITA.  I’ll happily continue to use LrC people removal.  Where it doesn’t do exactly what I’d like, that’s just too bad.  Few things are all things to all people.

Participant
July 14, 2026

More often than not, there is an “unexpected error”. If it doesn’t work most of the time, it should not be rolled out.

Participant
July 12, 2026

I tried it - sometimes do great work - sometimes removed to much (in my case the person plus a rock beside him)

Known Participant
July 10, 2026

I just tried to remove people and while there were 5 people in the photo, none were removed

Participating Frequently
July 9, 2026

Often works well, but in many situations leaves silhouettes of the people removed.

Participant
July 9, 2026

There’s like a shape left after removal. It used to blend well before.

annettec18591954
Participant
July 4, 2026

Subtract. Don't add.. Don't just add different people missing limbs, just remove and replace the fence they are leaning on. I swear one Time this program added a pile of Poop!  I should’ve taken a screen shot of it.

Participant
July 3, 2026

The feature does not always select the correct people to remove. It would be ideal to be able to brush over additional people or remove parts of the auto selection.

Participating Frequently
July 3, 2026

Was working before in camera raw on my HEDTC trying it now on a good laptop all running windows 11 64 bit this feature will not work at all, shooting on a Nikon Z 6III in raw.

Inspiring
July 2, 2026

It selected and removed distracting people very well but left the subject group of people.  Try as I may, I couldn’t find a way to remove anyone from the subject group.  Using the remove tool didn’t help either.  It left adjoining people distorted and substituted some random person.
In the Adobe demo video, it showed all people selected and removed.  My LrC selects only those in the background.  I’m running LrC 15.4.1.