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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

 

431 replies

Kafty
Participant
April 6, 2026

I’ve tried using this feature, It identifies the least intrusive people and leaves the most distracting people. Quite frankly it’s a waste of time.

Participant
April 3, 2026

At times it replaces with unrealistic people, but some times it does a wonderful job.

mattw33725986
Participant
April 2, 2026

Trash. Just use the photoshop version and bring it to LR

uoeuit18215215
Participant
March 30, 2026

As others have shared, it replaced the people with worse looking people

rvpnm
Inspiring
March 29, 2026

Tried it, but it left a ghost of a partial person.  Didn’t work

SajiR
Participant
March 29, 2026

Earlier it was working better, but recently its replacement is pathetic.

Participating Frequently
March 28, 2026

It removed the people it selected, but replaced them with some other person that appears grotesque with weird hands.

Participant
March 27, 2026

I had a photo with 1 person on steps that it found but there were also several people in the back of the photo. Why not have a tool so I can highlight an area to look a little harder for people in that selected area.

pamelala
Participant
March 27, 2026

it’s great if nothing really busy happening behind, mine had a jeep behind so now I have no people and half a jeep :)

kenp79243265
Participant
March 25, 2026

Hi

I just got back from a trip and have hundreds of pictures to edit.  I was using the “remove people” and it was working quite well, however in the last two days I cannot get it to work.  It does not search for people but says to click on the icon and pick which view I like the best or regenerate.  There is no icon because it didn’t search for people.  I have to do it all manually now until there is a fix for this.

Thank you

Ken