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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
January 16, 2025
Question

P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

  • January 16, 2025
  • 600 replies
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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

 

600 replies

Participant
August 17, 2026

I am using the latest version of ACR on Windows 11. I used to be able to exclude the areas I did not want to be removed by clicking on the pin of the area and then press Delete. Now, the clicking only results in enlarging the area, and I cannot delete the area anymore.

Participant
August 16, 2026

Three pair of legs in a grassy field at the top of the photo were identified and removed, but what was left behind was blurred and a lighter color than the surrounding grass.

Participating Frequently
August 16, 2026

didn’t work well.  it removed only 1 of 8 people in my photo.  the people were easily recognizable as people.  the one person it tried to remove left a black splotch that looked like an alien.  tried twice.  basically the same result.

Participant
August 15, 2026

My SO is Windows 11 and the Distraction Removal is incluind/excluding things on the pictures. It is not working correctly.

Participant
August 12, 2026

Normal AI removal 

 

Participant
August 12, 2026

It removed the person but did a really bad job blending the repair.  The last version worked so much better.

 

Participant
August 12, 2026

Terrible. Aimed to take out a “distractive” person. Extremely easy to find for the software plus plane background (single color). Made a complete mess of it, removing the distraction but giving the main person in the shot a bad lip surgery and third degree burns in the process. More than just disappointing.

Participant
August 5, 2026

LOTS of ghosting/outlines of what’s been removed with the people distraction removal. Extremely frustrating!

Participant
August 2, 2026

In the remove pannel please add a brush to add or remove from the selection to be removed.

Thanks.

Pinotage
Participant
August 2, 2026

Me too had this problem : While the tool removed the people nicely, it did not adjust the surrounding lighting, making it look like two ghosts were stalking the photo.