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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

ThomasH_on_the_web
Inspiring
June 9, 2026

I have an example, people on the left removed, ignored on the right side, even if optically arguably better visible as “people.”
 

People on the left identified. On the right side ignored. 

And that is the result of the removal of people:
 

people on the right can be removed by the “Use generative AI” manual selection.

This is the result after manual removal of people and also the car on the left:
 

 

Participating Frequently
June 9, 2026

Dumb me, I forgot that I could remove the people manually.  Thanks for the follow up.

Participating Frequently
June 8, 2026

How do I add the people that the AI didn’t pick up?  I can remove the ones that were automatically chosen, but I can’t add someone else that it’s not picking.  There is no ADD people to the feature.  

Nicko19
Participant
June 7, 2026

Works so well. Brilliant.

Participant
June 6, 2026

It doesn’t work very well. I cannot find all the distracting people in a raw file and if they are behind something like a chain link fence but clearly visible it doesn’t work there either. 

Participant
June 4, 2026

Using the distraction removal tool for people in LrC, and it removed the person I wanted but replaced it with a different person, an auto-generated person. I erased that one and another generated person replaced that one. So, it was a fail on this image. It worked on other pictures. (I don’t want to attach the image as I don’t have permission to send out the others in the group.) I edited it in the latest update in Photoshop’s distraction removal for people instead. 

Participant
June 6, 2026

I have the same problem/

Piotr_m_Osinski
Participant
June 1, 2026

Po naciśnięciu opcji wykrywania ludzi na kadrze, wykrył tylko osoby stojące najbliżej krawędzi kadru a osoby stojącej na wprost kadru nie wychwycił. Lr 14,3

Known Participant
June 1, 2026

I used the Distraction removal tool for the first time. I used the people remover option on a low-key image of a pub in London. It was remarkable how well it worked. It removed 4 people and recreated the background perfectly. 

Michel_Rongen
Participant
May 31, 2026

The functionality missed some (for example a leg when someone is setting on a bench). It would be great if we could edit the selected zones.

fpernett
Participant
May 29, 2026

It would be useful if the selection from distracting people removal could be edited to refine the area

orthodr
Participant
May 29, 2026

Ditraction tool remover is an excellent tool indeed. to some extent, self selection and manual deletion offers gret comfort to editor but there could be a manual selector also where user can select entire person distraction the frame just like object tool selection in masking. many of the times, distraction removal tool includes main subject too and deletion of its pin unselect distracting people.