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

[Erik Bloodaxe]

Curious as to a definition of distracting people. Tried out the new distraction removal feature on photos containing people ranging from a single person to a group of ten. Each time the program reports that it is unable to detect distracting people. The question is what is this feature aimed at for I haven't yet managed to find it?

[simonsaith]

Please see possibly related https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/p-techonology-preview-distraction-removal-peop...

[Kreacher13]

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.

[D.Calafato]

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.

[Sean25874736rjup]

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.

[Taichipaul]

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

[royk3283]

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

[simonsaith]

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.

[royk3283]

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.

[simonsaith]

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

Could you further share more details about your system info?

[royk3283]

It works on some images but makes some inappropriate decisions on images such as this where I would expect it to identify the people in the background as "distractions", but not the official on the sideline.

[simonsaith]

Thanks. At least it is good to know that your machine configuration is not the issue. For the "test1" photo, are the original cropped raw file? We found a bug that if at least one of the distracting people’s masks is out of the crop bounds, the message “unable to find distracting people” appears in the people section, even though distracting people are present within the crop bounds. The workaround is to clear the crop and try again.

[coloze]

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.

[bo31555]

Je découvre Génial

[hugod44522464]

worked wel on my photo thx

[Chrisinhouston]

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. 

[Ashir33573985v89q]

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.

[Mathias_DK_]

I like these tech previews and they hold great promise for the future once properly optimized and with developing AI. Right now, I am working on some travel photos, and dust is a real problem. I love the Heal Tool (working in Lightroom Classic), but working with it manually is extremely slow, laggy and un-optimized on large panoramas, even on a very beefy system (RTX 4090, 64gb RAM). This is thus a feature request for 1) Optimizing the Heal Tool for large images 2) Using AI to automatically detect and remove dust spots as a Distraction Removal. This would be an amazing time saver, and more practical to me than people removal.

[Jan Lenting]

Did some testing. Works well on most photo's i tested but got also a result where Remove people in Camera Raw could not find distracting people while remove people in the Remove tool removed all of them perfectly.

[Micheld2]

I'im really impressed!  I took a photo of a bunch of balloons at Disney but got the heads of several people in the way, The remove distraction feature captured and removed them cleanly

[Jake29611456lgun]

Definitely needs redefining before public release. It seems to use the same model as gen AI. Why let people use a separate device when they could mask it better than the new tool can. 

[@calissonda_ix]

bonjour 

cette application , suppression de personnes me donne totale satisfaction , photographe amateur  pour des photos de voyage  je peux supprimer tres facilement avec un resultat très satisfaisant 

cordialement 

[PeterWongPoonOn]

I appreciate both the “Remove People” and “Remove Reflections” features. In my experience, the tool effectively removed two small groups of people from my image with impressive accuracy. I have yet to test its performance on larger crowds. Additionally, the “Remove Reflections” feature delivers excellent results, significantly enhancing image clarity.

[rocket S jack]

Yep, it works alright.  Removed two unsuspecting folks in my shot.  The result was a full 5.  out of 5.  nice job Rikk.  and thanks.  Keep up the good work..

RSJ