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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
January 16, 2025
Question

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

 

614 replies

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.  

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Participating Frequently
June 22, 2026

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

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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 !

 

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Tracy31538453n54u
Participant
June 20, 2026

Replaced distracting person with another woman wearing just a bra!  

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Reeder0415
Participant
June 20, 2026

Also my Lightroom Classic was updated and when making minor corrections to a photo, the photo tends to disappear from the grid of photos in the when I go back to the library.  Something is not right.  Before the update did not experience this.

 

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Reeder0415
Participant
June 20, 2026

when I used the removal of people, it left white blobs or squares.  

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Participating Frequently
June 19, 2026

remove tool seems to work better ...a lot better

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Known Participant
June 15, 2026

Apparently can only be run once on an image. That’s not useful at all.

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Participating Frequently
June 15, 2026

Does not remove all distracting people and you cannot re-run the effect.

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Participating Frequently
June 12, 2026

The online instructions state that you can cycle through variations using the people removal tool.  I get only one option; no variations

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