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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
January 16, 2025
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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

 

476 replies

Participant
June 20, 2025

Absolutely amazing! Now I can go back in my catalog and create usable images without tedious Photoshop editing. Thank you!

Participant
June 20, 2025

I was super excited to try this but its not worked for me! Obvious people/distractions and its not removed them correctly at all. If you are charging for this then it needs to be way better than it is! I'm so disappointed! Hopefully the other feature will live up to their hype! 

johnkar1
Participant
June 20, 2025

It only took out one group of people. The one with the lady in the hot pink outfit.

 

Great idea. Implementation a bit lacking at the moment.

 

Participant
June 19, 2025

It found my people in a really busy area of the photo.  KUDOs here.  BUT it selected way too big of an area and took out the gas pump at a marina and replaced it with an electronic keyboard!!!  That certainly didn't work.   Tried to find a way to take the gas pump out of the mask but couldn't figure out how.  Would be nice to be able to adjust the people mask like I can do in the regular masking area.  

Participant
June 19, 2025

First try......One and done. Worked perfectly.

Participant
June 19, 2025

I like the DRP function, it works well but it is limited and I cannot ask / prompt / select other people (or parts of people) than those the program has chosen. I ended up with a floating head when the DRP took the person's body but not their head and where I wanted a lot of sitting people removed the program stated nope it is just these two and that's your lot.

And the function only works once on an image and going back for a second attempt gets you nowhere.

But when it gets it right the program is very good, just needs a bit of refinement.

Neiman8920
Participant
June 19, 2025

The remove tool detected the person for delete, however only half the person was removed leaving the lower half untouched.  In addition, the removed area has different shade or shadow making it look like a ghost image.  Another person in the same photo was removed but leaving a smuge in the middle.  

Participant
June 19, 2025

Hi, I wish I could erase parts of the selection, sometimes it automatically selects parts os the image that are not people, or other objects that I want to keep. 

 

Participant
June 19, 2025
You can edit their selection by clicking on the pin of a selection and hitting delete.

      
      Natalie ​

Retired and a damn nice person!
Participant
June 20, 2025

can you add new pins to items you want to delete?

Participant
June 19, 2025

L'outil parait intéressant dans sa description, ce qu'il y a d'étonnant c'est qu'il remet d'autres personnes en moindre nombre dans les zones ou des personnes sont détectées...

The tool seems interesting in its description, what is surprising is that it puts other people in smaller numbers in the areas where people are detected...

Inspiring
June 19, 2025

Das Tool funktioniert nicht durchgängig gut. Bei einem Bild mit 5 groß sichtbaren Personen sind nach der Entfernung Schatten übrig geblieben und eine neue Person mit gelben Kopftuch wurde hinzugefügt!!! 
Irgendwie verwirrend ...
Zudem vermisse ich, dass man die maskierten Bereich ändern kann.