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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

Participant
June 22, 2025

When removing distracting people, there should be an option to remove people all together!! I did some bracketing of airplanes when some people walked in on one of the shots, I cannot get them out using the distracting people tool, because the AI thinks that they are the subject. The subject is a C-5A Galaxy, but the AI is so "people" driven, that it thinks they are the only thing that matters.

Participating Frequently
June 22, 2025

The feature recognized the distracting people: a couple and a single person standing on a ridge against a white sky. The result of the removal, however, was not so successful. The couple was removed completely, but you could see the patch (darker) in the sky. The single person was replaced with a light house (?!). Using the regular remove tool in PS would have been much easier and faster. 

Participant
June 22, 2025

Efectivamente, elimina personas pero se inventa otras cosas, por ejemplo, ha quitado una persona y en el lugar donde estaba se ha inventado y ha puesto una caja en ese lugar.

 

Participant
June 22, 2025

Zwei störende Personen wurden erkannt und durch eine andere Person (Ansicht von hinten) ersetzt.

War also nicht hilfreich!

Participating Frequently
June 22, 2025

Well... that is not just disappointing but really creepy!
Before:


After

 

detailed_power6C13
Participant
June 22, 2025

La nueva función es buena eliminando las personas y distracciones, pero los elementos que hay cerca de las personas quedan muy distorsionados y artificiales.

Participating Frequently
June 22, 2025

Need the ability to select people / paint on the photo where distracting people are, to add people to the distracting people removal, when the current feature misses some people.

Participant
June 22, 2025

The new feature works well in removing people on the beach in the background, however it doesn't always get all of them. It would be great if we could add to it and subtract from it with an additional mask before it removes the distractions. It also doesn't seem to replace the background with as good of a result as when using AI remove. 

Participating Frequently
June 22, 2025

Unsure why it substitutes other images when removing people - so annoying and distracting as you have to then do it manually....

 

Participant
June 21, 2025

I very much love the feature that removes people from a scenic photo. Thank you for providing it. That said, it removed all but one. And there was no way to remove people again, so I have one woman standing where there was a crowd.  Not completely ready for prime time.

 

As long as we're on the subject, it would be great to have a button to remove phone poles and associated wires.

rickb98023210
Participant
June 21, 2025

I just tried the people removal tool for the first time. The tool works great!