P: Distraction Removal: People (CR & LrClassic)

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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

[Koldo Ken]

The AI seems to think that this is a distracting person!  I have tried the distraction removal tool on a number of photos. Sometimes it did not recognise a distracting person at all. I think it is more useful to include an option for us to highlight/mask an area for the ai to concentrate on finding the distraction.

[kat_8135]

I had it remove someone from a reflection in a mirrored cabinet with glass shelves. It detected the person and did well, but grabbed the edges of the cabinet. I wish there was a way to remove/edit parts of the mask since it changed the wood trim on the furniture, which is no longer accurate to the product being sold.

[Clyde_Sweatt217]

Running Lightroom Classic on Windows, I used the remove tool to select a group of people and when I clicked remove it began the process then stopped and generated a message that something went wrong, generative remove failed, try again. I retried a few times with same results.

I next tried the people option and two groups of people were selected each with its own pin. The instructions say to exclude an area from selection to click on its pin and use the Delete key. I clicked on the pin for one group and pressed the Delete key and both groups were deselected. I retried a few times with the same result. I then noticed the message that appeared in the panel that said "selected" along with a garbage can icon. When I clicked on the icon only the one group which pin I had clicked was deselected as desired. The instruction should be changed to indicate that using the Delete key will deselect all groups and to deselect only a specified group you should click its pin and click on the garbage can icon.

Just to confirm what happened before submitting this, I used the remove tool to select the same group of people that originally generated the failure message - this time it worked. There is something inconsistent happening there.

[Lucio27965222ckpl]

prova in camera raw

[Hannah26212120qr4d]

This is my first time trying it, it did a pretty good job removing that guy on the bench, but the amount of grain doesn't match so it looks just a little off - you can this most clearly where his head was.

[Glenn 8675309]

Just use the remove tool with a small brush setting to go over it again.  I sometimes have to go over an image 3 or 4 times.

[UncleGizmo]

I'm getting this weird ghosting where elements (in this case people) has been removed.

[Christopher_England51]

I've used it for the first time this morning, and without thinking I said "wow!" out loud.  No indication whatsoever that anyone was there in the original photo.  Brilliant.

[louis_1776]

I used it to remove around 8 people in the frame. One was close and the others were in the very back of the picture.  It took all of them out perfectly.   What a great tool.  

[mzphoto]

For the most part its great. However the problem is that there is no way to DESELECT the parts of the nearby people it removes or changes the faces/bodys/etc of. It's a mostly wonderful clean addition I'm very appreciative of, but really would love the ability to 'paint out' the parts of the people and things I want to keep intact.

[LionheartPix]

Definitely a beta, or maybe an alpha. Is there no way to add to the selection, or refine it at all other than to disable it for certain non-contiguous areas? But even worse is what it seems to have done to the previous erase tool—which used to work well. Now it leaves behind a real smudge where the person or object was removed—really bad look! And does this have any impact on photoshop's spot healing brush, because now it samples areas it shouldn't for content aware, IOW it is aware of TOO MUCH content. In PS it also now results in a smudged area. Not even close to be ready for prime time.

[Christopher_England51]

Having had a closer look at the image I tried the AI removal tool with, I'm
less than impressed with the result. It has promise, but in its present
form is only any good for specific and fairly small areas that don't
impinge on the subject of the photograph. It needs a lot more development!

[louis_1776]

I found that in my test it removed both near and far field people. The near field was on big person and the far field were small and it still removed them. I’ll try other images to see if that was unusual.

[cbrennan88]

Tried for first time and worked fine in a number of images. A couple of times, however, I got a couple of weird artifacts that were pasted in area where distractions were removed. One was a toddler riding a tricycle and another was a goat! Sorry I didn't keep the files to drop here but seeing here that I was not the only one who experienced this.

[Patrick Baldwin]

My favourite was removing just a knee from the edge of a frame and was given a little Indian chap in national dress!

[keithz829]

Tried it on my Windows 11 system and found the Remove tool using Generative AI and Detect Objects worked better, and gave options with its results.  The results from using the Remove Distracting People didn't look natural to the scene for me, whereas removing them with the Remove tool looked much more natural.  Hopefully, the Remove Distracting People will work better in the future.

[wonderful_navigator4206]

Great tool but it only works to a point, typically it will detect one out of two or more people that are grouped together and of of course it only deletes the one person,

Hopefully going forward this can be improved as there's so much potential in this feature.

[al@cybercord.com]

Could it be that there are too many people in your photo?  Have your tried the manual mode and removed less object each time. I have found the manual mode to be more effort but I can be specific about what is being deleted each time.  GL

[bob_nc1953]

it leafs prominent peaple in the forreground untouched which is a shame 

[al@cybercord.com]

All,

Just started using the AI features on my laptop and Samsung Tablet.  Highly inpressed with both.  Eliminating trees, branches, people and such is working near perfect. I take multiple photos to merge in a pano knowing that I can remove the tree or people. I love it.  Now the Pano is a merged file that included the original that shows the people in the file.

[laduck]

Please consider adding the ability to refine the automatically selected area when selecting people. It often selects too much or too little. Having the ability to refine with a brush tool would make this more usable. 

[Jozeeke]

Daar loop ik dus ook tegenaan. Het zou moi zijn als je zelf ook wat aan kunt klikken om te verwijderen. Verder vind ik het een heerlijke toevoeging.

[kenchong69]

Often times when you want to remove a highlighted object, in this case, person(s), the feature would replace it with another person other than removing him/her.

[al@cybercord.com]

Ummm, I have not see this. Only 15 or so edits using this feature.  But I have had nothing like your experience. It was were flawlessly for me. 

[MárcioMSCruz]

An editing tool for selected areas would be welcome, as some selections have more or fewer people than desired.