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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
January 16, 2025
Question

P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

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

 

614 replies

Participant
September 19, 2026

When removing people, the shadows of the people should also be removed.  Most of the time, the shadows are not removed.

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Participant
September 17, 2026

I had an image in a relatively dark church, and LR only found one person. Weirdly it found everyone in an outdoor shot.  I even tried to trick program by increasing exposure temporarily, it still only found the one person.

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John Gaudette
Participant
September 15, 2026

Hello

Camera Raw ver18.6.0.2698
MacOS 26.6.2

I want to revert some AI deleted people after AI delete people, but mouse cursor is magnifying glass, so I can’t click eraser.
In before version, I could revert some people.

Thanks,

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Participant
September 15, 2026

With the remove tool in Camera Raw 18.6 , it worked well for the people it found, but only about 10% of the people were found and removed. Interestingly, in the masking panel, all the people were selected. In the main Photoshop (Beta) 27.11.0, the remove tool found all of the other people and removed them. 

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Participant
September 10, 2026

I used remove people tool in LrC. It removed people but kept a black mark. Appears useless in LrC. Then I edited it in PS 26. It worked very well in PS26.

Photos attached for reference. Could not understand why it worked like that in LrC. I am eager to know. 

 

 

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Participant
September 8, 2026

I cannot see any way to select the area I do not want to change, as the hint below says. It is all or nothing for me.

 

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Participant
September 6, 2026

Es hat prima funktioniert.

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Participant
September 6, 2026

Identifies and removes people well enough but the resulting fill is too often wildly off the mark and frequently distorted. Heck of an idea and if perfected would be a great tool, but to me seems to have a ways to go yet.

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Participant
September 2, 2026

The identification is good, but the results are not: there are always a lot of imperfections. For good results, it is far better to select them manually.

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Participant
August 31, 2026

The identification is pretty good, but if something is in front of those people or whatever distraction it is the lines of the subject will be distorted

 

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