A couple weeks ago, I made a video demonstrating the new features found in the latest version of Photoshop, Photoshop 2025. That video is here: ruclips.net/video/4l0mY9d5qXM/видео.html In that video, I mentioned that one of the new features didn't work at all for me and demonstrated why. Adobe contacted me and told me how to make it work properly. I'm sharing what Adobe told me in this video. Check out the FREE Photoshop Virtual Summit 6: www.AnthonyMorganti.com I have FREE Keyboard Shortcut Cheatsheets and Mini-Courses available. Check them out: www.AnthonyMorganti.com To get more info about Photoshop, go here: prf.hn/l/lGnjDBl I am an Adobe affiliate and will earn a commission if you purchase anything using the link directly above. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/
Thank you Anthony! I use a 2017 iMac and every time I tried to run the new remove distractions tool, it crashed. I went back to the previous version of Photoshop as there were too many issues with the latest version. However, this simple fix seems to have fixed everything. 😊
Thanks as always very informative. I beleive the "bug" was with Adobe as I had a similar problem on by PC. When I contacted Adobe directly they told me the problem with my GPU, however following recent update to Photoshop it seems to be working well.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this solution, Mr. Morganti. I had the problem and just applied your fix to Photoshop on my Intel iMac and for the first time I was able to remove a background person.
Right on, Anthony! You are correct. The beta version seemed to work flawlessly. In the live version I was struggling with a particular photo that provided poor results. When I just changed the specific setting you guided us to, I had to select (Editable, people) several times--because everyone was very close together--but the process eventually worked. This was a big fix! Thank you so much!
Thank you very much. That was driving me crazy. Now I get to keep some of the few hairs I got left. By any chance you or someone watching this is having problems when saving an image back to lightroom? used to be that when I hit Save it went directly there, now I find myself having to Sync the folder in order for the image to show up.
Thanks Anthony! I do have a question. On the carriage image, before applying any remove edits, there was a small protrusion on the front of the carriage. This was present on both sides of the front of the carriage. You can see it in front of the woman’s elbow. After applying the remove people, which worked very well, it removed the small protrusion as well. This seemed to make the carriage unbalanced or incomplete. Is there a way to subtract the selection before hitting the check mark to remove people?
Thanks Anthony! I just used your fix on my AMD PC and it worked perfect. Now I can finally process my National Parks images because it is almost impossible to get a shot without people in them.
Thank you! Anthony! I haven't been removing people yet in PS 2025, but since the 2025 updates, PS 2025's Remove Tool, (not in beta) and which worked perfectly for me in LrC's Edit in > PS had become very unstable. I could use PS' Remove Tool once, but multiple uses crashed PS again and again. The same setting change Adobe recommended for your remove people issue also fixed my PS Remove Tool issue.
Great video and easy work around Mr Morganti, thankyou, except I have to change Photoshop and Photoshop Beta Preferences on my desktop and laptop, and I guess that, when an update of either software comes along, I`m going to have to go in aand make this change again?
When there is too many people, set up on tripod and take about 20 photos. People will move and not be in same place. Load images into layers, convert to smart object. go to layers - smart objects - stack mode, choose minimum. and it will reduce the people. Then try the remove people tool on a copy of the image not as a smart object.
Hello Mr. Morganti, I think it's time for you to change your iMac with an Intel presesor, sold my iMac and replace it with a MacBook Pro M3, now all the LrCC and Photoshop processes are done quickly. I appreciate all your videos. Thank you very much for so much help.
Thank you this was a great updated to this amazing tool in PS. I am in awe how well this works and since I have the same problem when I travel and you cant get rid of people in the frame. Hats off to all the smart people in Adobe that can achieve this type of wonderful tool. They really deserve an Oscar for "Special Effects" if there was such a thing for SW !
Unfortunately, that doesn't work either on my PC. Not in the normal, not in the beta. I always get this error. Had a chat with Adobe support today, and the guy there got access to my computer - but he knew just as much about photoshop as my wife, and she knows nothing!
OK thanks. Unfortunately although I carefully applied the changes that you suggested (and went back to check them after shutting PS down) it hasn't resolved the issue on my PC!
If CPU must be used for people distractions (if getting error msg), isn't it just better to leave the Pref on GPU (for spd) and manually paint on an overlay with the Remove Tool (& not use generative credits)? Did Adobe say they'll fix the bug (issue) you experienced with ppl ID/removal & GPU? I'm Win 11.
When I use the remove people option, it doesn't just take one credit, it depends on the number of people in the photo several credits are taken, I don't know if that's another Photoshop bug.
What am I missing here? I don’t understand the huge benefit of the auto selection of people. Instead I just use the erase tool brush to brush over the people and then it auto removes them just fine. Selecting wires for removal is tedious so removing wires is when I use the new distraction feature. I use a PC Windows 11 with Nvidia GPU.
iMac and Lightroom / Photoshop often don't play well together. Twice, I've had LR/PS stop functioning entirely. So . . . I ended up buying a PC for my photo work. Trying to make the iMac / Adobe products function demanded too much time and stress. Frustrating.
Taking multiple photos and putting the setting into medium removes the objects. It isn’t that hard. Needs a tripod. A little additional manual is also needed.
Kind of ridiculous that there's no solution posted with the warning or an auto-switch to the CPU when Ps encounters the warning. Does Adobe really expect that users are going to know where that setting is? I mean, it doesn't even say that it changes from GPU to CPU processing! Adobe, DO BETTER.
I am so tired of so called Adobe AI stuff yesterday I asked gen, AI to add a decorative to to a tooth pic in a drink with an olive on it, it gave me a total of 9 toothbrush heads. The images all the influencers are showing off are all set ups. The last max was just about all AI nothing new for a photographer. They are leaving their loyal base behind and when the kids get tired of playing Ai afore will realize the photographers are not there any more
So why did you state "I found a fix" in the title without crediting Adobe? You didn't find the fix, they did. Not only that, but they reached out to you with the solution! Some weird form of click bait Anthony.
These settings still do not work on my M1 Mac Studio (Sonoma), latest version of PS. Tried indoor images where skin tone was similar in hue to background tungsten lighting which may explain the failure to detect people. Tried high contrast outdoor sunny day soccer players and same results. It would remove the blurred player in the backgrouind but could not detect the in focus player in the foreground. Most cases it would not find any people except one occasion where a part of a person in the background was detected. One case with a person holding her dog, detection could not find her but painting around the subject then removing worked fine. Distrraction removal seems to be an over-hyped not ready for production feature unless there is some other setting that can be changed. After a closer look at the process, the can't find message indicates that there are no people that are not the main subject of the image e.g. the two soccer players with one in focus in the foreground, the one in the background was removed. Unfortunately, PS thinks a group of out-of-focus people seated behind one or two in-focus people in front of the group makes the backgound people part of the main subject.
A couple weeks ago, I made a video demonstrating the new features found in the latest version of Photoshop, Photoshop 2025. That video is here:
ruclips.net/video/4l0mY9d5qXM/видео.html
In that video, I mentioned that one of the new features didn't work at all for me and demonstrated why. Adobe contacted me and told me how to make it work properly. I'm sharing what Adobe told me in this video.
Check out the FREE Photoshop Virtual Summit 6:
www.AnthonyMorganti.com
I have FREE Keyboard Shortcut Cheatsheets and Mini-Courses available. Check them out:
www.AnthonyMorganti.com
To get more info about Photoshop, go here:
prf.hn/l/lGnjDBl
I am an Adobe affiliate and will earn a commission if you purchase anything using the link directly above. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement:
onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/
Thank you for the follow up and as always thank you very much for an informative presentation!
Thank you Anthony! I use a 2017 iMac and every time I tried to run the new remove distractions tool, it crashed. I went back to the previous version of Photoshop as there were too many issues with the latest version. However, this simple fix seems to have fixed everything. 😊
Thanks for the video. The fix was very easy to implement. Tried the remove tool on several different photos with great results!
Thanks as always very informative. I beleive the "bug" was with Adobe as I had a similar problem on by PC. When I contacted Adobe directly they told me the problem with my GPU, however following recent update to Photoshop it seems to be working well.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this solution, Mr. Morganti. I had the problem and just applied your fix to Photoshop on my Intel iMac and for the first time I was able to remove a background person.
The fix worked great. Thank you!
Right on, Anthony! You are correct. The beta version seemed to work flawlessly. In the live version I was struggling with a particular photo that provided poor results. When I just changed the specific setting you guided us to, I had to select (Editable, people) several times--because everyone was very close together--but the process eventually worked. This was a big fix! Thank you so much!
Thank you !
Thanks for posting. Interesting. I attempted the same process you recommended, but was not as fortunate. Using a mac mini with an M1 chip.
Which iMac are you using? Thanks!
Thank you very much. That was driving me crazy. Now I get to keep some of the few hairs I got left. By any chance you or someone watching this is having problems when saving an image back to lightroom? used to be that when I hit Save it went directly there, now I find myself having to Sync the folder in order for the image to show up.
Thanks Anthony! I do have a question. On the carriage image, before applying any remove edits, there was a small protrusion on the front of the carriage. This was present on both sides of the front of the carriage. You can see it in front of the woman’s elbow. After applying the remove people, which worked very well, it removed the small protrusion as well. This seemed to make the carriage unbalanced or incomplete. Is there a way to subtract the selection before hitting the check mark to remove people?
Thank you Anthony. My MacBook already had this option clicked and I still will get this error message occasionally
Thanks Anthony! I just used your fix on my AMD PC and it worked perfect. Now I can finally process my National Parks images because it is almost impossible to get a shot without people in them.
I tried all permutations of the settings that you showed but still not working on my Windows 11 home PC. Thanks any way. M.
Thank you! Anthony! I haven't been removing people yet in PS 2025, but since the 2025 updates, PS 2025's Remove Tool, (not in beta) and which worked perfectly for me in LrC's Edit in > PS had become very unstable. I could use PS' Remove Tool once, but multiple uses crashed PS again and again. The same setting change Adobe recommended for your remove people issue also fixed my PS Remove Tool issue.
Great video and easy work around Mr Morganti, thankyou, except I have to change Photoshop and Photoshop Beta Preferences on my desktop and laptop, and I guess that, when an update of either software comes along, I`m going to have to go in aand make this change again?
When there is too many people, set up on tripod and take about 20 photos. People will move and not be in same place. Load images into layers, convert to smart object. go to layers - smart objects - stack mode, choose minimum. and it will reduce the people. Then try the remove people tool on a copy of the image not as a smart object.
Hello Mr. Morganti, I think it's time for you to change your iMac with an Intel presesor, sold my iMac and replace it with a MacBook Pro M3, now all the LrCC and Photoshop processes are done quickly.
I appreciate all your videos. Thank you very much for so much help.
Thank you this was a great updated to this amazing tool in PS. I am in awe how well this works and since I have the same problem when I travel and you cant get rid of people in the frame. Hats off to all the smart people in Adobe that can achieve this type of wonderful tool. They really deserve an Oscar for "Special Effects" if there was such a thing for SW !
Oh Thank you!.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work either on my PC. Not in the normal, not in the beta. I always get this error. Had a chat with Adobe support today, and the guy there got access to my computer - but he knew just as much about photoshop as my wife, and she knows nothing!
Same thing to me. I use PC. Change of the setting suggested by Anthony did not work. Got the same error message.
OK thanks. Unfortunately although I carefully applied the changes that you suggested (and went back to check them after shutting PS down) it hasn't resolved the issue on my PC!
If CPU must be used for people distractions (if getting error msg), isn't it just better to leave the Pref on GPU (for spd) and manually paint on an overlay with the Remove Tool (& not use generative credits)? Did Adobe say they'll fix the bug (issue) you experienced with ppl ID/removal & GPU? I'm Win 11.
When I use the remove people option, it doesn't just take one credit, it depends on the number of people in the photo several credits are taken, I don't know if that's another Photoshop bug.
That crowd, what happens if you unmask half, 3/4 of it?
What am I missing here? I don’t understand the huge benefit of the auto selection of people. Instead I just use the erase tool brush to brush over the people and then it auto removes them just fine. Selecting wires for removal is tedious so removing wires is when I use the new distraction feature. I use a PC Windows 11 with Nvidia GPU.
Like I said in your previous video, who really needs power lines removed so often that this feature should be given so much attention?
I tried this fix and still does not work for me, Bummer
iMac and Lightroom / Photoshop often don't play well together. Twice, I've had LR/PS stop functioning entirely. So . . . I ended up buying a PC for my photo work. Trying to make the iMac / Adobe products function demanded too much time and stress. Frustrating.
Taking multiple photos and putting the setting into medium removes the objects. It isn’t that hard. Needs a tripod. A little additional manual is also needed.
Why are you on 25.x? I've been on 26.x for some time.
Kind of ridiculous that there's no solution posted with the warning or an auto-switch to the CPU when Ps encounters the warning. Does Adobe really expect that users are going to know where that setting is? I mean, it doesn't even say that it changes from GPU to CPU processing!
Adobe, DO BETTER.
I am so tired of so called Adobe AI stuff yesterday I asked gen, AI to add a decorative to to a tooth pic in a drink with an olive on it, it gave me a total of 9 toothbrush heads. The images all the influencers are showing off are all set ups. The last max was just about all AI nothing new for a photographer. They are leaving their loyal base behind and when the kids get tired of playing Ai afore will realize the photographers are not there any more
So why did you state "I found a fix" in the title without crediting Adobe? You didn't find the fix, they did. Not only that, but they reached out to you with the solution! Some weird form of click bait Anthony.
Why anyone would stay with Adobe after all the crap they have pulled is beyond me.
These settings still do not work on my M1 Mac Studio (Sonoma), latest version of PS. Tried indoor images where skin tone was similar in hue to background tungsten lighting which may explain the failure to detect people. Tried high contrast outdoor sunny day soccer players and same results. It would remove the blurred player in the backgrouind but could not detect the in focus player in the foreground. Most cases it would not find any people except one occasion where a part of a person in the background was detected. One case with a person holding her dog, detection could not find her but painting around the subject then removing worked fine. Distrraction removal seems to be an over-hyped not ready for production feature unless there is some other setting that can be changed.
After a closer look at the process, the can't find message indicates that there are no people that are not the main subject of the image e.g. the two soccer players with one in focus in the foreground, the one in the background was removed. Unfortunately, PS thinks a group of out-of-focus people seated behind one or two in-focus people in front of the group makes the backgound people part of the main subject.