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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

 

561 replies

Participant
June 18, 2025

This needs the ability to be able to use a brush to paint out certain areas that I don't want changed. This currently selects areas that I want to exclude. Other than that, it's pretty good.

Participant
June 18, 2025
If you click on the pin in the one you want to remain and press delete, it will remove the mask on that one, and not remove it.

      
      Natalie ​

Retired and a damn nice person!
Participant
June 18, 2025

J'ai eu besoin de cette fonctionalité, dans deux cas de figure la suppression à fonctionné le résultat obtenu était celui attendu. Mais dans le deuxième cas, je demandais à l'IA de suprimer une personne debout et une autre assise. Pour la personne debout, pas de souci, mais pour la personne assise elle était systématiquement remplacé par une autre personne assise ou par une chaise vide voir par une table. Pas trop convaincu pour le moment. 

Cordialement, 

Participant
June 18, 2025

I found it inconsistent, in some photos it didn't choose anyone, in others it worked great.  My question is about after generating the people selection, I chose to leave one person.  Then I tried to go in again to remove that person, but the tool did not work.  

SaberTech
Participant
June 18, 2025

I do appreciate that the distraction removal tools have been implemented within Lightroom Classic.  However, they do seem to be a bit hit and miss.  Sometimes the options are not available for a given photo (DNG) (the sideways arrow beside People or Reflections being grayed out) only to be available a few minutes later.  Also, I'd love the ability to refine the mask created when removing people as it often seems to select more than it should.  By that I mean it sometimes selected parts of the image that don't contain people or shadows of people.

Participant
June 18, 2025

I would like to access the brush to add areas to a selection in the distraction removal tool.

 

Participant
June 18, 2025

I don't understand why sometimes when using remove people, new people (who usually look like cabbage patch dolls) replace some of them. 

Participating Frequently
June 18, 2025

For my Photography its unusable. The old version was (and still is) much more precise.

 

So is the AI Denoise. Its just brings a click instead of the use of the precise rulers that we still have.

 

For me just gags for marketing purposes but not for pros.

Participating Frequently
June 18, 2025

It works and it does not work. A big thing is missing:

- It finds people, which is good. But then

- we have no option to refine what LrC found. The selected areas are much too big and should be made smaller.

mark R Jones Photography
Participant
June 18, 2025

its got portential, but could only remove one person in several pictures, i need to tell it to remove others, but didnt have the option, so had to do it manually, needs the option of selcting people it hasn't selected

Participant
June 18, 2025

quando funziona va benissimo. Ma non sempre trova le persone giuste da cancellare.  Sarebbe opportuno dare la possibilità di modificare le maschere.