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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Jan 16, 2025 1:41 PM UTC
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P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

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

 

629 replies

Participant
Oct 25, 2026 5:01 PM UTC

In front of stones ore in my casa of a building it did not work correctly. The generetion of a new face is not nessesary.

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Participant
Oct 25, 2026 2:17 AM UTC

Had a pic of the Delicate Arch in Utah with lots of people around it. It found those highlighted against the sky  but not those in front of rocks and ground.

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Participating Frequently
Oct 22, 2026 11:53 AM UTC

When I hover over the eraser icon above a detected person, the cursor remains a magnifying glass instead of changing to an arrow. Clicking only zooms the image in or out, so I cannot deselect individual people before removing them.

This feature does not work as demonstrated in Adobe's tutorials.

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Participant
Oct 22, 2026 11:05 AM UTC

non riesco a selezionare le persone da eliminare, ma solo quelle consigliate dall’intelligenza artificiale

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Participant
Oct 22, 2026 8:01 AM UTC

LrC: The removal works pretty well, especially the people detection; I've noticed that in bright photos the tool tends to leave shadows of the subjects removed.

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Participant
Oct 18, 2026 2:12 AM UTC

I use this tool over a blue sky and the people silhouette left a white shadow over the blue sky 

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Participant
Oct 17, 2026 10:42 PM UTC

Distraction Removal > People crashes Camera Raw when launched from Adobe Bridge — Intel Arc B580

Hello Adobe team,

I am experiencing a crash when using Distraction Removal > People in Adobe Camera Raw launched from Adobe Bridge.

My GPU is Intel Arc B580 with 12 GB VRAM.
Installed graphics driver: 32.0.101.9150.

Camera Raw correctly detects the GPU and reports that full GPU acceleration is enabled. However, detecting distracting people fails and the application crashes.

Importantly, people removal works when I use Camera Raw through Photoshop. The crash occurs when using it through Bridge.

The error dialog shows:
• Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library — “Assertion failed!”
• Intel driver module: igd12um64xe2.dll
• Source path includes DnniPluginNext and utils.hpp
• Line: 553

Resetting GPU support and restarting the applications did not resolve the issue.

I purchased this GPU specifically to accelerate AI-assisted photo editing. Disabling GPU inference is not a satisfactory permanent solution.

Please clarify whether this is a known compatibility issue, what additional diagnostic information you need, and how to resolve it while retaining GPU acceleration.

Please provide a written response and, if this is a confirmed bug, its tracking reference and fix status.

Thank you,
Andrey

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Participant
Oct 17, 2026 7:37 PM UTC

MISSING PROBABLY 6 PEOPLE

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Participant
Oct 17, 2026 12:59 PM UTC

No funciona en Camera RAW la herramienta quitar personas. También PS me da problemas con las máscaras de luminosidad, el pincel no marca. 

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Participating Frequently
Oct 17, 2026 9:57 AM UTC

Photoshop can find distracting people. However, two ‘persons’ were actually a bridge and a fence. Should not be a problem if I could ‘delete the pin’ of ‘persons’ I want to keep. However, no pin shown. Instead a red area is shown with an eraser. But I cannot delete these. The mouse cursor keeps being zoom in/out. Also no separate layers on the right shown to delete one or the other. So currently the feature cannot help me unfortunately.

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