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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

 

401 replies

Participant
February 20, 2025

Не особо коректно работает эта функция. Не понятно почему когда на групповом фото есть явно отвлекающий объект в кадре, он его просто не находит. Это намного легче и быстрее сделать инструментом удаления выделяя вручную, так еще будет и 3 генеративного варианта выбора. Как по мне функция не особо нужна.

Очень бы хотелось чтобы когда нибудь добавили в Camera Raw инструмент пластика. Вот это действительно нужный инструмент.

conniel17284534
Participant
July 22, 2025

Abolutely amazing feature, love it love it love it!

Chrisinhouston
Known Participant
February 20, 2025

I tried it today on several images, some with just one or two people and some with a lot of them. I got mixed results. On a picture of the Acropolis in Athens it removed around 12 people scattered around in front and did a good job. I found that if I opened a Raw file that had been previously edited in Lightroom and I had applied some masks to the people to adust their exposure it did nothing in Camera Raw, as if it didn't see them and they were front and center. Personally, I seldom use ACR so this new tool is not too important to me. My workflow starts with Lightroom and moves to Photoshop if necessary. 

hugod44522464
Participating Frequently
February 20, 2025

worked wel on my photo thx

 

Participant
February 19, 2025

Je découvre Génial

Participant
February 18, 2025

I used it to remove one person on a bridge, while not perfect the result was okay. Would be better if it worked like the object selection tool and you could hover and select.

 

Participant
February 18, 2025

It did not detect any of the people in the background of this RAW file.

Adobe Employee
February 19, 2025

Thanks for sharing your test images. I am not able to reproduce the issue on my end. All the persons are correctly dedetected when running on my MBP.

 

Are you running this on Windows? Please follow https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html#update to keep your GPU driver current. That is most likely the reason that you don't get any meaningful result.

Adobe Employee
February 19, 2025

I am running this on an iMac - everything IP to date. I tried removing the people again and get the message "Unable to find distracting people in this image".

When the image is opened in PS, the Remove tool gets rid of the people very successfully.


Ok. Does it detect any distraction people on other photos? 

 

Could you further share more details about your system info?

Participant
February 17, 2025

Removed all the tourists and replaced them with some blurred faceless person...somewhat bizzare.

 

Participant
June 27, 2025

yes, today same situation.

Last saturday, LrC removed persons correctly and replaced them with correct surrounding.

Seems not stable...

Participant
February 16, 2025

I have a photo of the U.S. Capitol, one of a number of photos. There are lots of people in there. So this is a good test. It found a lot of people, great. But it has four key issues: (1) You can't adjust the Mask, so the nice couple I wanted to keep  got grouped with others I wanted to remove and the choice is All of None in a group; (2) I took the photo from in front of the Capitol, with the reflecting pool there and it didn't consider their reflections in the water; (3) it identified a traffic cone as a person; and (4) it missed someone.

Known Participant
February 15, 2025

La rimozione delle persone è buona o abbastanza buona, dipende dalle immagini. Non sono evidenti le puntine per ripristinare quelle persone, che non voglio eliminare. In ogni caso, una volta evidenziate le persone si dovrebbe avere la possibilità di scegliere quali, aggiungendo o togliendo con un pennello.

 

Participant
February 15, 2025

I have tried this on multiple pictures with people in varying locations, it has failed badly.

In image one with the red GTO it got the guy behind the car with the hat on and not the people in the upright and left of the image.

In the image with the red antique Ford it gets the guy on the back left with the 'Indians' shirt and none of the rest of the people.

In the image from the church, it identifies the woman with the ponytail in the lower right corner and NO one else.

 

If you need these in RAW to run your own test, please let me know.