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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
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

 

600 replies

Inspiring
July 2, 2026

It selected and removed distracting people very well but left the subject group of people.  Try as I may, I couldn’t find a way to remove anyone from the subject group.  Using the remove tool didn’t help either.  It left adjoining people distorted and substituted some random person.
In the Adobe demo video, it showed all people selected and removed.  My LrC selects only those in the background.  I’m running LrC 15.4.1.

Participant
July 1, 2026
The option to select only the dress and correct it in the People option in Photos will no longer work.
Participant
June 29, 2026

Removed five people very well but did not find eight very obvious people. 

Participant
June 29, 2026

generative ai removes people but a silhouette will remain where they previously stood

Participating Frequently
June 27, 2026

And now it removed the head but not the body.

Participating Frequently
June 25, 2026

I had one selection where it got the body and left the person’s head.

Legend
June 23, 2026

Only removes half the people in the image. Need the ability to add more people to remove.

Participating Frequently
June 22, 2026

Does a good job detecting people but for some reason selects an area so far outside the people that it changes the shapes of the objects they are nearby. I understand the need for having a slight overlap or feather in some situations but it goes way too far outside of the boundaries by default. Requiring me to separately go in and subtract those areas from the selection almost defeats the point of using it in the first place.  

Participating Frequently
June 22, 2026

Still does not detect the most obvious people in the foreground nor background. 

scherryj196566
Participant
June 21, 2026

The new removal and generative tool is awful!  It was working perfectly - now it will not match the background and creates weird monster looking shapes to fill the space.  Please go back to the one that was working !