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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Jan 16, 2025 1:41 PM UTC
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P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

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

 

629 replies

Participant
Sep 8, 2026 4:22 PM UTC

I cannot see any way to select the area I do not want to change, as the hint below says. It is all or nothing for me.

 

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Participant
Sep 6, 2026 10:04 AM UTC

Es hat prima funktioniert.

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Participant
Sep 6, 2026 2:19 AM UTC

Identifies and removes people well enough but the resulting fill is too often wildly off the mark and frequently distorted. Heck of an idea and if perfected would be a great tool, but to me seems to have a ways to go yet.

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Participant
Sep 2, 2026 9:24 PM UTC

The identification is good, but the results are not: there are always a lot of imperfections. For good results, it is far better to select them manually.

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Participant
Aug 31, 2026 10:21 AM UTC

The identification is pretty good, but if something is in front of those people or whatever distraction it is the lines of the subject will be distorted

 

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Participant
Aug 30, 2026 3:25 PM UTC

27 people in the photo, not one identified

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Participant
Aug 28, 2026 8:53 PM UTC

s les personnes à supprimer sur la photo.

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Participant
Aug 28, 2026 6:14 PM UTC

I was excited to see this feature added, however I was disappointed that when I edit the colors and try to delete people, it doesn't match the color edits in background. I tried doing the people extraction BEFORE I edit but then when I went to add my preset color it puts the deleted people back to the image?? 

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Participant
Aug 28, 2026 4:26 PM UTC

Does NOT work properly!  Am unable to click on pin to delete a person from removal.  Instead, the zoom feature turns itself on whenever curser is placed over photo.  Therefore, people that I do not want removed are removed anyway.  Darned annoying!  This is definitely a major bug!  Please help!!!!!

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Participant
Aug 28, 2026 11:01 AM UTC

some edges from the surroundings were also erased. good enough, it could be better but im not complaining

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