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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

 

559 replies

Participant
July 21, 2025

used remove distracting people tool the person it detected was replaced by another person????

Participant
July 21, 2025

I tried using it but its not working

 

Participant
July 21, 2025

Using Lightroom or Photoshop, the system does not recognize people in the photo.  In one photo, there is one adult and 5 children in the foregound and numerous people in the background.  The system doesn't recognize any of them. It only picks up the elbow of someone on the edge of the photo. When trying different edit options, it also creates weird looking figures. In another photo, it recognizes a few people, removes them and then fills some of the area with something irrelevant. Usually, this is failing badly. 

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.