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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

 

559 replies

Participant
September 4, 2025

Able to remove only a couple of people and not all (not that many) in the background.

Participant
September 3, 2025

It would be great if we could add people (in the background) that hadn't been detected autmatically.

Also, to be able to edit the areas that have been detected autmatically, by adding or substracting.

I'm a professional photographer using Lr daily.

Thank you!

Participant
September 1, 2025

Bastante bueno trabajando con fotografías nocturnas.

Participant
August 31, 2025

Hi   I used people removal for the first time.  It works really well but it only ound one group of people,  I wasn't able to move to another group and remove them. Was I missing something ?? 


Andrew 

 

Known Participant
August 31, 2025

 The tool is inconsistent. Sometimes it finds people, sometimes it doesn’t , even when they’re looking right at the camera. If someone is standing behind the main subject, it usually misses them completely.

It also tends to over-select. For example, I had my subject carrying a tent with two helpers behind. The tool picked up not only the helpers but the tent itself, with no option to deselect the tent.

Right now there’s no way to refine or adjust the selection, which makes the tool underdeveloped and not really ready for real use. Do hope you bring it up to speed sooner rather than later. Thank you.

Matt Fitt
Participating Frequently
August 31, 2025

I love the idea, but until this includes the ability to edit the mask, this feature is only meaningfully functional for a very limited set of images - one for which there are already robust tools available.

MárcioMSCruz
Participant
August 30, 2025

An editing tool for selected areas would be welcome, as some selections have more or fewer people than desired.

Participant
August 28, 2025

Often times when you want to remove a highlighted object, in this case, person(s), the feature would replace it with another person other than removing him/her.

al@cybercord.com
Participating Frequently
August 28, 2025

Ummm, I have not see this. Only 15 or so edits using this feature.  But I have had nothing like your experience. It was were flawlessly for me. 

Participant
August 28, 2025

Please consider adding the ability to refine the automatically selected area when selecting people. It often selects too much or too little. Having the ability to refine with a brush tool would make this more usable. 

Participant
August 30, 2025

Daar loop ik dus ook tegenaan. Het zou moi zijn als je zelf ook wat aan kunt klikken om te verwijderen. Verder vind ik het een heerlijke toevoeging.

al@cybercord.com
Participating Frequently
August 27, 2025

All,

 

Just started using the AI features on my laptop and Samsung Tablet.  Highly inpressed with both.  Eliminating trees, branches, people and such is working near perfect. I take multiple photos to merge in a pano knowing that I can remove the tree or people. I love it.  Now the Pano is a merged file that included the original that shows the people in the file.