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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
January 16, 2025
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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

 

614 replies

Participant
November 9, 2025

This worked great to remove a specttor who was lacking in situational awareness. Thanks for creating this.

 

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Participant
November 9, 2025

This tool is really disappointing — it can’t even properly remove a full person from the image.

 

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Participant
November 9, 2025

Worked great.  It took out one person.  Also, part of the left/bottom connor was absurted by an object.  Took that out also.  It replaced with similar background.

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Participant
November 8, 2025

it removes people, thank you! but leaves like a shadow of where the person was lol

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Participant
November 8, 2025

Sure! Here’s your message with a warm, positive, and grateful ending:


Hi!
I’m trying out the new version of the tool for removing people from photos — it’s really interesting how quickly it selects the object you want to remove. It would be great to have an option to generate different versions of the background without people, since sometimes it creates quite “unique” backgrounds that don’t really match the original photo.
Overall, it’s a fantastic update — thank you for the amazing work and constant improvements!


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Participant
November 8, 2025

希望能检测到画面中的所有人,并可移除所有人;如果要保留某个人,可以进行选择性的保留。

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Participant
November 5, 2025

When I've used this tool after applying light corrections it removes the person, but it leaves a ghostly white silhouette of the removed person. This has happened with remove object too. I try to remove a light post and it is the same result. A white silhouette.

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Participating Frequently
November 3, 2025

I have only used the people remove tool 3 times but each time it has removed all the people and only the people and the background has been replaced perfectly seamlessly. Absolutely brilliant!

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Participant
November 3, 2025

You need to be able to add more people. It works great when it works. 

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Known Participant
November 3, 2025

didn't work for me.

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