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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

Participant
July 15, 2025

HIya Great you have added this feature - sadly though I have a ghost figure now. WHich given its an abandoned lonely croft house on a Scottish moor is evocative but not helpful! 

julie5799
Participant
July 15, 2025

THIS DOES NOT WORK!
It took away the person to add a guy that I did not even know LOL!

julie5799
Participant
July 15, 2025

 

WHO IS THIS GUY!! Kinda of funny but its not LOL

It did take away the person I wanted to get rid of in the photo but it added this pervert stranger LOL

Participant
July 15, 2025

I used the feature on several images taken at a tourist attraction with quite a few people moving about in each one, in every example the effect was fantastic with everyone highlighted vanishing perfectly. The only point I would make is that there is a note that if there are items you do not want removed they can be deleted before the action is taken but no indication that if there are people or items that you want to add how that can be done.

Participant
July 15, 2025

While the "Peope" distraction removal tool has so far recognized people well, when it removes them, it leaves a yellow shadow of the person in it's place.

Participant
July 14, 2025

On about my 7th attempt to use the distraction removal tool and frankly only in one instance did it provide a useable image. In the most recent attempt the tool ID'd a bright halo on a poster behind the glass and dimmed the halo, while ignoring the buildings and cars reflected in the window.

 

Alas I can't up load the raw file and the resulting .dng for your review.

 

 

Participant
July 14, 2025

Remove people and got a scene out of Jurassic Park complete with Velocoraptors.  I think AI has a sense of humor...

Participant
July 13, 2025

Removing people does not work, it inserts distorted, anatomically incorrect people instead of the ones I wanted to remove

Participant
July 13, 2025

It finds poeple quite well. However, it tends to add new people instead which makes no sense at all.

Kind regards

Tim Kramer 

Mickd71
Participant
July 13, 2025

New feature works okay sometimes.  Can distort person, e.g. removing head from person in background over subject's shoulder results in distortion of shoulder and sometimes removes in animate objects when removing people.  Still playing with it but so far it iis okay in some circumstances.

Jason R. Dunn
Participant
July 13, 2025

In a photo I have of a building, there are two people off to the side, and one person more in the middle. Both are distracting, but the software only selects the two people off to the side. It removes them nicely, but I also want to select the person in the middle. There seems to be no way to add them. That seems like a much-needed missing feature.