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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 16, 2025
Question

P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

  • January 16, 2025
  • 374 replies
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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

 

374 replies

Participant
June 21, 2025

Tried it on an image of a large hall (Grand Central) with lots of people.  It only selected the 3 or 4 closest to the camera.

 

Participant
June 20, 2025

Virtually never detects any people.  I've tried dozens of images and it has worked (partially) on only one.   Some guidance on what kinds of people it will detect would be appreciated.  Is it best for people in the foreground, the edge of the frame, the distance etc.

Known Participant
June 20, 2025

Love the feature. It generally works great, but sometimes it replaces instead of removes. It just replaced a person with a dog for some reason.

Known Participant
June 30, 2025

How do I turn off notifications from this thread? There's a new email every few hours. I can't delete my old comment or uncheck the email reply box.

Participant
June 20, 2025

des personnes sur un fonds de branchages : certaines sont bien effacées et d'autres non. D'autre part comme pour les autres effacements d'objets l'effacement est remplacé par une texture correcte le plus souvent mais floue

Participant
June 20, 2025

It doesn't work anything like as well as the advert video.  Only picked up one person from a crowd of 10.  Replaced them with a broken chair.

Participant
June 20, 2025

Es ist leider nicht hilfreich wenn die Entfernten Personen durch neu generierte ersetzt werden. 😞

Participant
June 20, 2025

I have pic of statue surrounded by people. The distraction removal tool identifies only several of the people, perhaps not quite randomly, but I want to remove all of the people. Not obvious how to do this. Definitely a beta release ( we all know what beta means, why coin Tech Preview?)

Eizo CS2730
Participant
June 20, 2025

Phantastic. Small corrections on the background necessary.

Participant
June 20, 2025

Absolutely amazing! Now I can go back in my catalog and create usable images without tedious Photoshop editing. Thank you!

Participant
June 20, 2025

I was super excited to try this but its not worked for me! Obvious people/distractions and its not removed them correctly at all. If you are charging for this then it needs to be way better than it is! I'm so disappointed! Hopefully the other feature will live up to their hype!