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Rikk Flohr -
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

 

589 replies

Participant
June 29, 2025

when i have it find people and it higlights them how do i have it add more

beachboy301
Participant
June 29, 2025

In 17.4. Does well locating distracting people but will often replaces the person with another AI generated person. Why? The tool is to delete, not replace. But a good first start and I appreciate the ability to remove multiple background people in a single process. This will be a huge feature once it gets a little better. 

Participating Frequently
June 29, 2025

Doesn't select all people and there is no way to select those that are not selected.

Freedman Photography
Participant
June 29, 2025

i give this brand new feature absoloutely fantastic 

so clever. lightroom has become amazing. thank you

Participant
June 29, 2025

I am using this people removal tool in Lightroom Classic.  When the people are small, it does a rather poor job of identifying them and there is no "Add" or "Subtract" option.  All you can do is regenerate those that are already identified.  I can do better using the old methods.

Participating Frequently
June 29, 2025

The feature also distorts text on signs near people, even though they were not marked in red (only slightly at the edges) – in my example, the name of a train station.

Participant
June 29, 2025

I would like to have more control in selecting who I want left in the photo and who should be taken out. I tried clicking on the pin and trashing but the pin included about 4 people and some benches. I only wanted the benches to stay in. So it would be good to have more control over this. 

Participant
June 29, 2025

Brilliant. Useful! Magic.

Tomasese
Known Participant
June 28, 2025

It frequently doesn't get them all.  This las time I had to save it as a new image 3 times bofore getting all the people.

Participating Frequently
June 29, 2025
Thanks for your response, but that wasn't my issue. When I was working in
Lightroom, the Distraction Removal removed all of the people properly. When
I exported the image as a jpg, the people were all back in the resulting
image.
Participating Frequently
June 28, 2025

I "removed" people walking down the street. The Remove process created four groups, and the removal seemed to work. However, when I went back to the library and exported this photo as a jpg to my Mac, the people returned.