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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

 

476 replies

MyrtleBeachPhotographer
Participating Frequently
July 20, 2025

It's changing the FACES OF BABIES in parent's arms.  This is atrocious and disturbing.

Participant
July 20, 2025

The tool occasionally replaces people with an object instead of blanding in with the background. How do you avoid this? Other times works well

Participant
July 19, 2025

When people detection misses some people would be good to have an ADD/Brush feature. WE can subtract people by usng the pins but we cannot add. That would be most useful if we could 

Participating Frequently
July 19, 2025

fantastico ora ho capito , grazie 

 

Known Participant
July 19, 2025

Tried this new (to me!) version of the people removal in LRC today. I liked the older version where you had to select the people to remove. I thought it usually worked well, although sometimes the people were replaced with something else. This automatic version failed to remove some of the people The ones it did remove, were removed well. All of the people were at a considerable distance in the Namibian landscape of Dead Vlei in Sossusvlei.

Participant
July 18, 2025

If you are trying to remove distracting people, then why does it add a different person? That doesn't work.
And why can't you edit the area it selects?
And why can't you choose more than once?
I go back to spot removal most the time.

Participating Frequently
July 18, 2025

LO trovo fantastico , solo che a volte evidenzia una sola persona e magari ce ne sono tre , sarebbe opportuno che si avesse la possibilità di scegliere le persona da eliminare . Comunque sempre avanti .

Participant
July 17, 2025

We should be able to edit/tweek the auto mask. Because it often misses in the borders and i just want to remove the mask on those areas.

Participant
July 16, 2025

 This was what I got after removing all background tourists.

Participant
July 16, 2025

Lightroom classic - two very obvious people on a trail.  The tool replaced them with a buffalo.  
undo, repeat - buffalo.  

undo, repeat - buffalo.
decide the people are not so bad... and there are no buffalo in Mount Rainier NP, afaik.

ronabeles
Participant
July 15, 2025

Sometimes this works perfectly in removing all people. Other times it creates a horrible image, which seems to be a composite of those removed. Ugly.