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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

 

476 replies

SethCar
Participating Frequently
July 8, 2025

This feature is not working consitently for me.  It only sometimes works, and not on every photo.  It seems to be not working when a photo already has some edits applied.  If this is the case, then I press reset in the dev module, and then it finally works on a specific photo.

 

is there a way to solve this?

Participant
July 8, 2025

If it should be removing people from the photo i would assume it shouldn't generate any stupid items? The tool should be called "replace people with AI bs". 

Participant
July 7, 2025

It removes the people quite well, and then adds a random person that didn't exist.

Participant
July 7, 2025

Extremely limited.  Might work out if you gave an option to brush over or adjust the mask but at that point, why not use the patch tool and generative remove?  It's ok.  Not much of a time saver and definately needs work but it does pick up people in the background who are out of focus due to depth of field so it has some promise.  

Antera
Participant
July 7, 2025

Used Remove tool "People" in LR Classic. The tool did a good job of removing the cast shadow, but failed on the person. The tool replaced the person with tripod I was trying to eliminate with a very colorful person and a different tripod. 

Participating Frequently
July 6, 2025

It works for simple removal of people, but one prominent person was not masked. 

 

Participant
July 6, 2025

First try of this and excellent result with only partial images of people it found them and removed them with ease a excellent very pleasing result .

MyrtleBeachPhotographer
Participating Frequently
July 6, 2025

Under 0 circumstances ever does a photographer want one person in the background replaced with another person in the background.  Including when we use the "remove" tool, that came before "people".  Why is it trained to EVER replace with another person?

Participant
July 5, 2025

Not all people are selected, and do not know how to add them to the selection

Participant
July 5, 2025

Removed a person and replaced with another person.  On another occasion there were at least ten people in the image and it didn't recognize any of them.  Still needs a lot of work.