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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

 

561 replies

Participant
June 23, 2025

Tried it out, was surprised to find that that there was a tiny person behind the distracting person. 

Before: 

After:

 

 

Participant
June 23, 2025

I tried the function on some high resolution landscape images where a couple of persons 
turned up on top of a sand dune. Not hard to remove manually but the removal of distracting people function
worked out great.

Many thanks!

beautiful_outfit16B8
Participant
June 23, 2025

I really like to add a selection of some people Lightroom misses....

Participant
June 23, 2025

Removing people works well, but shadows still remain, as if they were only 95% removed.

Participant
June 23, 2025

I have been using it on my latest photo shoot at a race(runners) and it works very well for me. It saves me a LOT of time by doing automatically what I used to do manually. So far so good. Geat feature!

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!
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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.