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Mohit Goyal
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 17, 2025
Question

Remove unwanted objects instantly with Photoshop's Distraction Removal tool!

  • January 17, 2025
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Discover the Distraction Removal feature in Photoshop 26.0 and further! Easily remove unwanted elements like people, wires, and imperfections with the enhanced Remove tool. Just draw over the object, and it intelligently deletes distractions while maintaining background depth and detail. Perfect for making your subjects stand out!

 

 

Remove multiple distracting elements such as people, wires, and cables from your image with the Remove tool in just few steps.

 

❶ Select the Remove tool from the toolbar, nested under the Spot Healing Brush tool.

❷ Go to Find Distraction in the options bar and select Wire and Cables or People.

❸ Select the Remove tool checkmark to commit the change and fill it with new content.

  • If People is selected, the image will be analyzed and a pink overlay will be created over the non-subject areas.
  • If Wires and cables are selected, the overlay will not appear over the wires and cables, but the results will be automatically applied.

❹ Try it on your own! Upload your own image and apply the Remove Tool's capabilities.

 

Once you're done, share your creation with us! Just hit Reply and post it here.

4 replies

Elkanan
Known Participant
June 6, 2025

I love the tool and have been using it for several months. However, if there was ever a opportunity to remove people, it would be in this photo. I only get the "Could only find people who are not the subject of this photograph" message.

Maybe there could be an option for "Remove All People"? Forget the discraction requirement. Let me decide who's a distraction or not.

 



Participant
February 9, 2025

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. 

creative explorer
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 20, 2025

This is such a game changer for me. I normally use the 'Retouch' tools, but having this 'Remove' tool, is such a cool trick when showing my students! 

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Participant
January 17, 2025

great explaination