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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 20, 2025

des personnes sur un fonds de branchages : certaines sont bien effacées et d'autres non. D'autre part comme pour les autres effacements d'objets l'effacement est remplacé par une texture correcte le plus souvent mais floue

Participant
June 20, 2025

It doesn't work anything like as well as the advert video.  Only picked up one person from a crowd of 10.  Replaced them with a broken chair.

Participant
June 20, 2025

Es ist leider nicht hilfreich wenn die Entfernten Personen durch neu generierte ersetzt werden. 😞

Participant
June 20, 2025

I have pic of statue surrounded by people. The distraction removal tool identifies only several of the people, perhaps not quite randomly, but I want to remove all of the people. Not obvious how to do this. Definitely a beta release ( we all know what beta means, why coin Tech Preview?)

Eizo CS2730
Participant
June 20, 2025

Phantastic. Small corrections on the background necessary.

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.