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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
July 11, 2025

bonjour , la suppression des personnes marchent très bien. 

Merci d' ajouter un bouton pour ajouter des personnes en plus à supprimer ( celles qui ne sont pas détectées spntanément  par le logiciel)

merci d'avance

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Participant
July 10, 2025

It's proving helpful for me so far, editing event photography. But I just used it on an image that merely beheaded a person, leaving the rest of the body. I wish there were options to refine or define who is distracting - or where their whole body is - if the initial removal doesn't quite work. I'm going back and using the removal AI tool outside the distracting people feature in the meantime.

 

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Participant
July 10, 2025

Distraction Removal creates NEW DISTRACTIONS! WTF

 

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Participant
July 10, 2025

Today i was removing a person in the background and AI filled it with a new face looking like an alien

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Participant
July 9, 2025

The first attempt was awsome!

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Participant
July 9, 2025

How do I reduce the masked area surrounding a person if I think the area covered by the mask is too large?

 

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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?

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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". 

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runephotography
Participant
July 7, 2025

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

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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.  

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Antera