removing Long exposure people

[Adam47a]

I took these photos recently while on holiday in Russia. I love the photos but i dont like the people who where in the shot and now appear like ghosts due to the long exposure.

Does anyone have any ideas how to help remove them?

Thanks !

[Chuck Uebele]

It's a bit after the fact, but if you're going to do something like this again, you can either shoot several exposures and combine them, then either mask out the moving people with an image that doesn't have people in that area, or you can put them all in a smart object and use statistics with median.

Since you most likely only have the one exposure, you're going to have to go in and use the healing brush tool and/or the clone stamp. You can also try the new content aware fill.

[Trevor.Dennis]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Chuck+Uebele  wrote

It's a bit after the fact, but if you're going to do something like this again, you can either shoot several exposures and combine them, then either mask out the moving people with an image that doesn't have people in that area, or you can put them all in a smart object and use statistics with median.

Since you most likely only have the one exposure, you're going to have to go in and use the healing brush tool and/or the clone stamp. You can also try the new content aware fill.

Chuck do you remember Monument Mode from 2015?  A sort of automated version of what you are describing.  It took a few years [1] for Shake Reduction to become available after it's amazing demonstration, so I guess there is chance we'll eventually see this in an update.

[1]  It was Sneaked in 2011, and while my impression was that it took years to be released properly, Wikipedia says it was only two years showing up in the first Creative Cloud version in 2013.  I was sure it was longer than that, but it looks like I was wrong.

[Chuck Uebele]

Yea, I remember monument mode. A more automated version of statistics. Not sure if they are going to do anything with that. Seems to be more something a camera company might try.

Yes, shake reduction was released in CC 2014, so a few years later.

Hard to say what will make it, and what will be dropped. What I'm hoping to see soon is Content Aware being able to pull source material from a second photo. They did a sneak on that, but using Adobe Stock. Would like to see it happen with your own images.

[MarekMularczyk]

Give Content-Aware Fill a go first. This will be the quickest and easiest. Just Lasso around a person and use Edit > Content-Aware Fill in CC 2019 or Edit > Fill in CC 2018 and earlier.

See what Content-Aware can do. If this doesn't work, use Clone Stamp tool or Healing Brush tool.