TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Beginner

5 min

Remove distracting people and window reflections

Distraction removal in Lightroom lets you remove background people and window reflections from your photos.

Note: Stock assets provided are for practice purposes only.See terms .

What you learned

Take advantage of AI to detect and remove people in the background

Click the Remove tool on the right, and under Distraction Removal, click People. Lightroom will place a pin and a colored overlay over the background people it has detected. To remove a pin from a person, click to select it and press the Delete key. Click Remove to remove the selected people from the scene.

Remove window reflections

Click the Remove tool on the right, and under Distraction Removal, click Reflections. Choose the quality level for the reflection removal: Preview, Standard, or Best, and click Apply. Preview is the fastest and is good to quickly see how much of the reflection is removed. Best will take longer to process but will create the best result.


Instruction and photography by

Glyn Dewis

Additional photography by

Seán Duggan

21 August 2025

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