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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

 

408 replies

Participant
October 29, 2025

It would be really nice if they allowed another option to add more people to the removal.

Participant
October 27, 2025

Generally, this function works pretty well. However, I'm somewhat frustrated that I cannont mark additional people that the function misses for some reason and delete them too.  Alternatively, it could be setup to mark ALL people in the photo, and then the user could simply "unmark" the people that they want to remain in the picture.

Participating Frequently
October 25, 2025

 

Not a bad start!!! Definitely helps my workflow, in some cases. It's by no means perfected, but it's it's a move in the right difrection for sure. My only wish would able to edit the edit (as in the generative remove brush optiion to add/subtract). I don't expect the people directly behind this subject's ear to be perfect-so a tweak on my part could hadd his real human ear back with a simple erase brush. 

Participant
October 25, 2025

Finding this v helpful,especially with smaller people in background, but results are too varied fro larger people i.e. nearer the forground. When a person needs removing who is partly overlaying a main subject you want to keep then could it be worked on please that the AI fill of the space is more accurate as there are v random things put in place.

Thanks

Participant
October 25, 2025

when removing a person on a field of grass, you can still tell where the person was, as the area results slightly out of focus.

Wolfgang Hünefeld
Participant
October 16, 2025

Unfortunately, removing unwanted people or those distracting from the subject on the beach always left ghostly shadows.

Participant
October 15, 2025

I used the people remove tool involving images at night and during normal daylight hours. I used images with multiple people in the image and some with single individuals. The tool has difficulty locating all the people. if more than one group or individual is in the image the auto select typically does not select or find all the people and will only highlight a partical to remove. I attempted a secondary search on the same images to see if the people missed would be found and removed and the tool failed to remove on secondary searches. 

al

Participant
October 14, 2025

Didn't identify background people. However, did remove a small, distracting item in the foreground.

Participant
October 8, 2025

Cela n'a pas très bien fonctionné, la suppression de personne sur l'image a généré des parties de personnes

Participant
October 4, 2025

Three people were selected - only two were removed.

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