Question

cut out multiple subjets on a group photo

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
January 16, 2026
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heu,

i'm having a very painful experience trying to just cut out the people on the photo from the background
Video exemple of how my Photoshop works so nice
can someone help me save my health trying to do so ?

thank if you read me 🙂

jean

macOS

J E L

Community Expert

Hi @johnnypizza, you can try using Photoshop's Distraction Removal tool to first detect and then delete the people you want to remove. There are instructions on how to do this at the link below. Let us know if that helps! https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/remove-object.html

J

johnnypizzaAuthor

hey J E L, thank you, although did you see my video ? my question is therefore : why does it take the face out while i'm just trying to get the background out ?
i tried to use your tool but you can see the result, i'm trying to take the background out but it puts faces in the background, what a practical and easy tool again... 😞

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I would expect Remove Background to do a decent job of a group like that, but to answer your specific question, if you use Select Subject > Select People, click to make all of the people appear in the panel, then select the first, and then Shift Click the others till they all have the blue outline.

Then click on Entire Person, and then on Apply

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You can see it did not do an especially good job

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I rather think it was confused by the ghost people above the group. The Ai works on what is normal — what it would expect to see — and the other people suspended off the ground are not normal. So I copied the layer and deleted the distracting background, and tried again. Noty perfect, but much better.

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With a complex selection like this, you always start with a layer mask, because that allows you to fine tune the selection. Hmmm... I changed my mind. That selection is actually OK, and you would do better still starting with the full resolution image.

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