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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
  • 374 replies
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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

 

374 replies

sueh8881837
Participant
June 23, 2025

First time using this feature: very poor results with minimal discernible difference in the photo.  Disappointed!

Participant
June 23, 2025

tem varios problemas nessa ferramenta de remoção de pessoas ao fundo da foto, um problema é que não faz a mascara nas pessoas antes de remove-las. outro ponto é que não sincroniza a remoção com varias fotos, tenho que fazer foto por foto essa remoção, e as vezes se perde a remoção que havia feito.... e preciso refazer.... outro ponto aproveitando, a remoção de ruido por IA não funciona mais, ele processa a imagem e depois da um erro. Vocês tem que testar essas ferramentas antes de lançar em uma nova atualização... isso acaba atrapalhando muito o nosso fluxo de trabalho com esses erros! lancem uma correção para esses problemas urgente! obrigado!

Participant
June 23, 2025

Would like the option to paint over the people who are distracting.

 

Participant
June 23, 2025

Tried it out, was surprised to find that that there was a tiny person behind the distracting person. 

Before: 

After:

 

 

Participant
June 23, 2025

I tried the function on some high resolution landscape images where a couple of persons 
turned up on top of a sand dune. Not hard to remove manually but the removal of distracting people function
worked out great.

Many thanks!

beautiful_outfit16B8
Participant
June 23, 2025

I really like to add a selection of some people Lightroom misses....

Participant
June 23, 2025

Removing people works well, but shadows still remain, as if they were only 95% removed.

Participant
June 23, 2025

I have been using it on my latest photo shoot at a race(runners) and it works very well for me. It saves me a LOT of time by doing automatically what I used to do manually. So far so good. Geat feature!

Participant
June 22, 2025

When removing distracting people, there should be an option to remove people all together!! I did some bracketing of airplanes when some people walked in on one of the shots, I cannot get them out using the distracting people tool, because the AI thinks that they are the subject. The subject is a C-5A Galaxy, but the AI is so "people" driven, that it thinks they are the only thing that matters.

Participating Frequently
June 22, 2025

The feature recognized the distracting people: a couple and a single person standing on a ridge against a white sky. The result of the removal, however, was not so successful. The couple was removed completely, but you could see the patch (darker) in the sky. The single person was replaced with a light house (?!). Using the regular remove tool in PS would have been much easier and faster.