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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
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

 

373 replies

Known Participant
November 3, 2025

didn't work for me.

Participant
November 2, 2025

Hello Rikk,
I have now tested the new tool for removing distracting people under various conditions. Sometimes the tool does not find all people immediately. However, there is currently no way to reselect the tool so that the people who have not yet been removed can also be found. There should be a way to use the tool multiple times.
Many thanks

Participant
November 1, 2025

   

Participant
October 31, 2025

I have to say I am a big fan of the Distraction addition.  Removal of window reflections is very good.  Ditto removal of distracting people but I can see this going a little over when you just want to rid an image of a photo bomb.  Applause for the team that put this together.

Glenn 8675309
Legend
November 1, 2025

It works better in photoshop.   It's still a welcomed addition to the tools in pse.

Participant
October 31, 2025

How can I modify a selection because it includes a sign with the person and will not let me reduce it to just the person for removal?

Participant
October 29, 2025

It would be really nice if they allowed another option to add more people to the removal.

Participant
October 27, 2025

Generally, this function works pretty well. However, I'm somewhat frustrated that I cannont mark additional people that the function misses for some reason and delete them too.  Alternatively, it could be setup to mark ALL people in the photo, and then the user could simply "unmark" the people that they want to remain in the picture.

Participating Frequently
October 25, 2025

 

Not a bad start!!! Definitely helps my workflow, in some cases. It's by no means perfected, but it's it's a move in the right difrection for sure. My only wish would able to edit the edit (as in the generative remove brush optiion to add/subtract). I don't expect the people directly behind this subject's ear to be perfect-so a tweak on my part could hadd his real human ear back with a simple erase brush. 

Participant
October 25, 2025

Finding this v helpful,especially with smaller people in background, but results are too varied fro larger people i.e. nearer the forground. When a person needs removing who is partly overlaying a main subject you want to keep then could it be worked on please that the AI fill of the space is more accurate as there are v random things put in place.

Thanks

Participant
October 25, 2025

when removing a person on a field of grass, you can still tell where the person was, as the area results slightly out of focus.