P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

Definitely a beta, or maybe an alpha. Is there no way to add to the selection, or refine it at all other than to disable it for certain non-contiguous areas? But even worse is what it seems to have done to the previous erase tool—which used to work well. Now it leaves behind a real smudge where the person or object was removed—really bad look! And does this have any impact on photoshop's spot healing brush, because now it samples areas it shouldn't for content aware, IOW it is aware of TOO MUCH content. In PS it also now results in a smudged area. Not even close to be ready for prime time.

For the most part its great. However the problem is that there is no way to DESELECT the parts of the nearby people it removes or changes the faces/bodys/etc of. It's a mostly wonderful clean addition I'm very appreciative of, but really would love the ability to 'paint out' the parts of the people and things I want to keep intact.

I used it to remove around 8 people in the frame. One was close and the others were in the very back of the picture.  It took all of them out perfectly.   What a great tool.  

I've used it for the first time this morning, and without thinking I said "wow!" out loud.  No indication whatsoever that anyone was there in the original photo.  Brilliant.

I'm getting this weird ghosting where elements (in this case people) has been removed.

Running Lightroom Classic on Windows, I used the remove tool to select a group of people and when I clicked remove it began the process then stopped and generated a message that something went wrong, generative remove failed, try again. I retried a few times with same results.

I next tried the people option and two groups of people were selected each with its own pin. The instructions say to exclude an area from selection to click on its pin and use the Delete key. I clicked on the pin for one group and pressed the Delete key and both groups were deselected. I retried a few times with the same result. I then noticed the message that appeared in the panel that said "selected" along with a garbage can icon. When I clicked on the icon only the one group which pin I had clicked was deselected as desired. The instruction should be changed to indicate that using the Delete key will deselect all groups and to deselect only a specified group you should click its pin and click on the garbage can icon.

Just to confirm what happened before submitting this, I used the remove tool to select the same group of people that originally generated the failure message - this time it worked. There is something inconsistent happening there.

I had it remove someone from a reflection in a mirrored cabinet with glass shelves. It detected the person and did well, but grabbed the edges of the cabinet. I wish there was a way to remove/edit parts of the mask since it changed the wood trim on the furniture, which is no longer accurate to the product being sold.

The AI seems to think that this is a distracting person!  I have tried the distraction removal tool on a number of photos. Sometimes it did not recognise a distracting person at all. I think it is more useful to include an option for us to highlight/mask an area for the ai to concentrate on finding the distraction.

Why bother attempting this in LrC?  The results are unacceptable and PS is still required.  If it was working, then great, one step eliminated - but not yet.