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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 16, 2025
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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

 

373 replies

Participant
June 30, 2025

There are two kids in the background of my photo. I'm using the Lightroom tool. It detected and removed the kids perfectly, but replaced them with one AI generated kid. If the whole purpose of the tool is to remove distracting people, why would it add another distracting person?

Participant
June 30, 2025
Yes this has got to be a bug that will get resolved. Even the current AI
delete tool will sometimes replace people or objects with other people
which is also not expected. Delete means delete.
Jlevineah
Known Participant
June 30, 2025

Clear drop in quality when using people distraction removal I wish we could shoose the settings (quality, resolution etc...) additionally feather/adjust masks generated

 

Participant
June 30, 2025

Tried to remove one person in the background of a photo and the person was just replaced with a different person.

Participant
June 30, 2025

I am a church photographer and just retirned from shooting 250 churches in Italy and the Balkans.  This featrure is miraculous and when it works, it really works.  I don't like to use it on groups of peoiple - only the stray individuals that might be sitting in ther pews or standing on the side chappels.  The generative fill is amazing and when it doesn't work well, I just regenerate by clicking on that selectioon and it regenerates with several options.  The one problem that I wish you could fix is sometimes (often) it misses people.  I wish I could direct it to that person by clicking on the spot I want it to look.  It also has trouble selecting people when they are sitting in a pew with their back turned to the photographer.  But when the AI phoghlites a persone, the removal and regenerating the fill ususally a line of pews) it is amazing.  

bienen234
Participant
June 29, 2025

es läuft sehr schlecht. Manchmal erkennt das Programm alle Personen, dann wieder sehr groß abgebildete überhaupt nicht

Participant
June 29, 2025

when i have it find people and it higlights them how do i have it add more

Participant
June 29, 2025

In 17.4. Does well locating distracting people but will often replaces the person with another AI generated person. Why? The tool is to delete, not replace. But a good first start and I appreciate the ability to remove multiple background people in a single process. This will be a huge feature once it gets a little better. 

Participant
June 29, 2025

Doesn't select all people and there is no way to select those that are not selected.

Freedman Photography
Participant
June 29, 2025

i give this brand new feature absoloutely fantastic 

so clever. lightroom has become amazing. thank you

Participant
June 29, 2025

I am using this people removal tool in Lightroom Classic.  When the people are small, it does a rather poor job of identifying them and there is no "Add" or "Subtract" option.  All you can do is regenerate those that are already identified.  I can do better using the old methods.