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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

 

418 replies

Participant
March 22, 2026

This feature does not work. In a group of people, only one is masked. you cannot rescan the image to remove the remaining people. This needs a lot more work.

kerrin.ilse
Participant
March 21, 2026

I do like the funktion. In my shooting there where some people walking into the background and it did a fine job marking them an generating a good result while erasing them. 

BUT, when I exported many of the images where I had used the function did not save with the KI Editing, so after the export the people where visible again. 

Please fix this issue, Other than that, great feature.

rchrdcstl
Participant
March 21, 2026

it does a pretty poor job of finding people to remove.  Needs much improvement

Participant
March 21, 2026

This feature needs more work it is very unstable. I literally had 1 whole person in the mirror and the remove people could not locate the person. 

Participant
March 18, 2026

Only 1 person in the photo and it could not find them!

Participant
March 16, 2026

It lowered a leg and changed proportion.

And it doesn't allow me to upload the result, in general Adobe has lost a bit of its edge recently.

milissas
Participant
March 16, 2026

many times when I use this feature to remove people it leaves ghosting behind. Like a white blob where the person used to be. 

heatherg47922713
Participant
March 8, 2026

I tried this for the first time and it missed 2 of the 3 people.

BrianBoston
Participant
March 7, 2026

It removed the people well but also removed a post behind them holding up a rope fence (like a movie theater type fenced in area).  I will need to clone the fence post from another area.   Also this was a long exposure and some people are blurred and it did not remove them and I did not see an area to highlight them to be removed.

Participant
March 6, 2026

La verdad no funciona la deteccion de objetos

por tanto el criterio de seleccionar sujetos molestos no funciona