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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
August 6, 2025

Removing people in Camera Raw 17.4.1
Sometimes it works perfectly, but sometimes it doesn't work at all. It would be nice to be able to do this in stages, starting with one person, then repeating the process by searching for distractions again. (Currently, you can't repeat the process while taking into account previous removals.

And perhaps being more precise and editing the selection with the brush would be more effective.
The selection is also too broad for a group of people when these people are separate and could be the subject of a separate group that could be removed or not.

Participant
August 5, 2025

My people often get replaced by a person who seems to be wearing weird horror movie masks! 

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Participant
August 5, 2025

it never find people and when it find someone the removel is so bad...

Participant
August 4, 2025

Strada labi, ja objekti ir atdaliti viens no otra (atrodas fona) , nestrada- tad kad cilveki ir viens aiz otra.

Participant
August 4, 2025

distraction tool didnt find all the people. 

Participant
August 3, 2025

some of the groups it just places other distracting groups vs removing them. No way to regenerate or add/remove sections.

Participant
August 3, 2025

The tool seems to be very arbitrary regarding "distracting."  It would be more helpful if it selected all people and then allowed the user to decide which are distracting and worth of removal and which are not.

MyrtleBeachPhotographer
Participating Frequently
August 3, 2025
You can remove selections by clicking on the area then pressing the trash
can under where the tool is on the right. Has anyone found a way to add
people it misses?
Angel Scan
Known Participant
August 3, 2025

for a future update, I would like to have a brush function to add unrecognized people (person details)

 

Thank you

Participant
August 3, 2025

I have used this tool several times and find it works quite well. I am using it with Windows 11 Pro and had a gaming computer built with high powered graphics processors to handle processing very quickly.

MyrtleBeachPhotographer
Participating Frequently
August 3, 2025

Watch babies faces, I had it completely change a babies face into an ai generated adult face. Very disturbing.

Participant
August 3, 2025

Worked OK for me today.

Good result.

Generated AI backround perfect

 

Thanks

 

David