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Rikk Flohr -
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

 

589 replies

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. 

Participant
June 18, 2025

I am trying to remove people from my photo using the new tool, but it only detects one person instead of six, so unfortunately only one person is removed.
I have tried this with different photos, but each time, only one person is removed.
MacBook M3 Pro user

 

Participant
June 18, 2025

First time i tried there is a big smudge on it so now i have to bring the picture into Photoshop as the remove tool still works better there?

Participant
June 18, 2025

Oh dear, needs a lot more work.  Replacing people with ......people!