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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Jan 16, 2025 1:41 PM UTC
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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

 

629 replies

Participant
Sep 27, 2026 4:26 PM UTC

Es wäre schön, der Schatten der Person würde auch entfernt.

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Participant
Sep 23, 2026 7:31 PM UTC

I need to be able to increase the area of distraction where it misses all of the person.

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Participant
Sep 22, 2026 12:30 AM UTC

the people removal did not remove the entire person at the edge of the frame.  

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Participating Frequently
Sep 21, 2026 1:06 AM UTC

When removing people, it should not replace them with alternative (fictitious) people. What’s the point in that?

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Participant
Sep 20, 2026 4:13 PM UTC

When removing people I get hover cars…. How can that be correct? 

Hovercars

 

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Participant
Sep 19, 2026 1:34 AM UTC

When removing people, the shadows of the people should also be removed.  Most of the time, the shadows are not removed.

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Participant
Sep 17, 2026 9:46 PM UTC

I had an image in a relatively dark church, and LR only found one person. Weirdly it found everyone in an outdoor shot.  I even tried to trick program by increasing exposure temporarily, it still only found the one person.

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John Gaudette
Participant
Sep 15, 2026 11:30 PM UTC

Hello

Camera Raw ver18.6.0.2698
MacOS 26.6.2

I want to revert some AI deleted people after AI delete people, but mouse cursor is magnifying glass, so I can’t click eraser.
In before version, I could revert some people.

Thanks,

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Participant
Sep 15, 2026 8:41 PM UTC

With the remove tool in Camera Raw 18.6 , it worked well for the people it found, but only about 10% of the people were found and removed. Interestingly, in the masking panel, all the people were selected. In the main Photoshop (Beta) 27.11.0, the remove tool found all of the other people and removed them. 

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Participant
Sep 10, 2026 4:46 PM UTC

I used remove people tool in LrC. It removed people but kept a black mark. Appears useless in LrC. Then I edited it in PS 26. It worked very well in PS26.

Photos attached for reference. Could not understand why it worked like that in LrC. I am eager to know. 

 

 

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