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P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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

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ricojones359

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I would also like the ability to select people as AI didn't get them all

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osmine

Participant

This is a significant enhancement. It is a pleasure to see how accurately people are discovered and eliminated. I have found that in a specific instance, the people were found, but the human figure on horseback was skipped over. I am very impressed.

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kmfh

Participant

It would be helpful if there is also the option of choosing which people you wish to be removed rather than only from the ones chosen by the programme . Sometimes they are different. Great tool however a wider scope would be beneficial.

gcbullen

Participant

The Distracting People tool is a very helpful feature, especially in travel photography, when we can't always wait for the scenes to be pristine for a shot of our subject. However, the inability to adjust the AI-chosen area limits the tool's success. For example, I just used it to remove a few people in the background, between my wife's head and my head. Result was good, but not quite usable, because the action also removed most of my right ear! So, I had to Undo and apply the standard Remove tool manually.

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jampie1946

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Persons after a fence are not selected, although they are recognizable .

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Shruti_Deshpande

Participant

I have like the distraction removal of people, but whay just people, when we want to use photoshop to detect may be distracting animal or even an object. I would request you to have this on your roadmap

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mzphoto

Participant

What does NOT work well is that we have absolutely no control to finesse whatever selection lightroom deems ''correct." Meaning, not only does it often select the person, but it selects a whole bunch of nearby objects that is not removed, but rather completely altered to have absolutely nothing to do with the original image nor anything one would ever wish to include.
PLEASE allow us to fine tune your selections, erase bits we don't want 'removed' so that we needn't waste time undoing and redoing over and over again.

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ThierryH7727272

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@mzphoto

I do agree with your comment. I have suggested at different occasions to Adobe and the community to include the Lr/LrC/CR masking options to the Remove (and replace) tool, so that better selections would make better and more effective results.
Why not make the masking tools the first step to more changes in Lightroom? Even Lens Blur could benefit from it. But start with (all of) the Remove tools.

Kind regards,

Thierry

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Samuel_Caracushansky7598

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Impresive!

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Anonymous

Hi, A Selection Brush tool would be great to add to this feature so I can determine which person is distracting.

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DKW Images

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