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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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

 

476 replies

Known Participant
July 31, 2025

While it did an amazing job of removing three people and rebuilding the background convincingly, it didn't rebuild any grain that is inherent in this image which is on Chinese no name B&W film stock from 1985 so grain in very pronounced!

Known Participant
July 30, 2025

This is a great time saving feature, and sometimes it works really well, but other times it removes most of the people, but leaves some trace of them behind, which is not acceptable and requires further work. It would be great if it could be refined so that it understands a full extent of what needs to be removed.

Participant
July 30, 2025

Still a long way to go for this function. Was trying to get it to remove crowds in front of Melacca's Christ Church (the famous red historical church) and despite having so many references it can find online of that building and surrounding, proceeds to generate a bunch of even worse distractions instead. 

Known Participant
July 30, 2025

Find it a little self-defeating that "distracting people" are most of the times replaced by similar—or rather: typically more out-of-context—and therefore even more distracting people rather than being removed based on background-aware analysis.

Known Participant
July 29, 2025

Only removes 2 people from the original NEF file of this shot.

Participant
July 29, 2025

It should remove the people and not replacing it with other stuff!

And often it can not detect any people! There is place for improvement!! You can do it better

Participant
July 29, 2025

As I try this, it seems to pick random people.  I usually want to add more people to be removed.  That would be a nice feature to add in here.

 

williamd28964456
Participating Frequently
July 28, 2025

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tried to remove two people and got this in return.

 

Participant
July 28, 2025

Utter Pish!!!

Participating Frequently
July 28, 2025

Removes more than the person in a High Res image. So not the best I'm afraid.