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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
January 16, 2025
Question

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

Participant
March 21, 2026

This feature needs more work it is very unstable. I literally had 1 whole person in the mirror and the remove people could not locate the person. 

Participant
March 18, 2026

Only 1 person in the photo and it could not find them!

Participant
March 16, 2026

It lowered a leg and changed proportion.

And it doesn't allow me to upload the result, in general Adobe has lost a bit of its edge recently.

milissas
Participant
March 16, 2026

many times when I use this feature to remove people it leaves ghosting behind. Like a white blob where the person used to be. 

heatherg47922713
Participant
March 8, 2026

I tried this for the first time and it missed 2 of the 3 people.

BrianBoston
Participant
March 7, 2026

It removed the people well but also removed a post behind them holding up a rope fence (like a movie theater type fenced in area).  I will need to clone the fence post from another area.   Also this was a long exposure and some people are blurred and it did not remove them and I did not see an area to highlight them to be removed.

Participant
March 6, 2026

La verdad no funciona la deteccion de objetos

por tanto el criterio de seleccionar sujetos molestos no funciona

Participant
March 3, 2026

It removed the distracting person with a more distracting mutilated human shaped thing🤣

Participant
March 3, 2026

I did finally get a good background person distraction removal, but I could not use it. The automatically selected mask of the distraction did not allow for mask editing. The mask overlapped the main subjects ¾ face profile and could not recreate a believable facial edge. Still impressive, but I would love to edit the selection before the generation. 

eda23322718
Participant
March 2, 2026

Suggest option to remove any of the foreground people too, not just background people.

Participant
March 2, 2026

It still has issues with some shapes, especially if the contrast is not good, but there is no straightforward way to refine the mask