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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

 

475 replies

Participating Frequently
March 28, 2026

It removed the people it selected, but replaced them with some other person that appears grotesque with weird hands.

Participant
March 27, 2026

I had a photo with 1 person on steps that it found but there were also several people in the back of the photo. Why not have a tool so I can highlight an area to look a little harder for people in that selected area.

pamelala
Participant
March 27, 2026

it’s great if nothing really busy happening behind, mine had a jeep behind so now I have no people and half a jeep :)

kenp79243265
Participant
March 25, 2026

Hi

I just got back from a trip and have hundreds of pictures to edit.  I was using the “remove people” and it was working quite well, however in the last two days I cannot get it to work.  It does not search for people but says to click on the icon and pick which view I like the best or regenerate.  There is no icon because it didn’t search for people.  I have to do it all manually now until there is a fix for this.

Thank you

Ken

Alan Gatta Apis
Participant
March 23, 2026

cuando selecciono la herramienta de Quitar, en lugar de quitar lo reemplaza por el mismo objeto que quiero reemplazar pero con otra forma, ej: quiero quitar una persona y solo me cambia el color de la remera o la cara

wc84005
Participant
March 23, 2026

No elimina completa a la persona a veces como por ejemplo un videografo que se te metio en la toma de unos nosvios no lo reconoce deberia reconocer a todas las caras y uno decidir que eliminar por que lo hace a su antojo espero lo tomen en cuenta 

Saycheez
Participant
March 22, 2026

In the People Distraction remover, a refine option is needed for the mask. I find that the mask often overshoots the person it’s removing and removes part of the subject, or it doesn’t remove all of the person. I prefer to do the People Distraction instead of brushing the object myself when that person is against my subject, I just don’t want part of the subject removed, too.

Participating Frequently
March 22, 2026

This feature does not work. In a group of people, only one is masked. you cannot rescan the image to remove the remaining people. This needs a lot more work.

kerrin.ilse
Participant
March 21, 2026

I do like the funktion. In my shooting there where some people walking into the background and it did a fine job marking them an generating a good result while erasing them. 

BUT, when I exported many of the images where I had used the function did not save with the KI Editing, so after the export the people where visible again. 

Please fix this issue, Other than that, great feature.

rchrdcstl
Participant
March 21, 2026

it does a pretty poor job of finding people to remove.  Needs much improvement