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November 5, 2024
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This post applies to Adobe Camera Raw plug-in.

Adobe Camera Raw team is sharing an early look of our new Reflection Removal feature, which removes reflections caused by plate glass surfaces from photos.

Note:

~~The feature currently only works on raw photos.~~ Support for JPEGs & HEICs is added in the April 24 Update.

There is a known issue on some Windows machines where the feature may produce a corrupt image. We are working on a fix for the upcoming release.

Check out HelpX for more detailed usage information. For more technical information on the underlying technology, please refer to this Blog post.

Getting started with the Reflection Removal feature:

Make sure you have the “New AI Features and Settings Panel” Technology Preview enabled in the Camera Raw plug-in Preferences dialog (requires restarting the host application to activate).

Go to the Remove panel [B] , and in the “Distraction Removal” section, click on the “Reflections” checkbox.

Optionally adjust the slider after the ML model is done computing.

Use the rest of the Camera Raw tools just like you would otherwise.

When using the slider, the key values to note are:

0 – the input photo

100 – de-reflected (window reflections removed) photo

-100 – reflection photo (what the window was reflecting towards the camera)

Please try the feature and share feedback in this community forum. It would help to include details like how you access Camera Raw (via Adobe Bridge or Photoshop), your computer system details, and as much information about what you like or do not like about the resulting photo quality. Our team will continually monitor this thread to track issues to improve the future experience.

When to use Reflection Removal

The feature is designed to deal with large-area reflections when shooting through windows. Many other types of reflections occur in nature and are captured in photographs, but this feature may not recognize and handle those. We plan to work on expanding the supported reflection types in the future.

Example use-cases for the feature include:

Looking through windows inside-out (e.g., from the car, airplane, room windows, etc.)

Looking through windows outside-in (e.g., shop windows)

Museums (e.g., paintings behind glass, glass case exhibits, etc.)

How best to use Reflection Removal

For best results, try the new feature following these suggestions:

Apply Reflection Removal before applying any other edits to the photo, except for Enhance features such as Denoise
- The changes made to the photo may be quite profound and render any changes you already made inappropriate.
- If you plan to use both Enhance (Denoise, Super Resolution, or Raw Details) and Reflection Removal on a photo, it is better to apply Enhance first.
Play with the feature slider and adjust the removal strength as appropriate.
If you applied Adobe Adaptive (beta) profile prior to running the Reflection Removal feature, please update it or you may see traces of removed reflections still present in the photo (Adobe Camera Raw will remind you to do this).

Boris Ajdin: Product Manager, Emerging Products Group

Update (01-16-2025)

To improve the performance and results of this feature, it is important that examples of images that are failing to properly remove the reflections are forwarded to the team via your report. A large variety of file formats are allowed as attachments in these forum posts. The best option is to attach your image's raw file directly to your feedback post. Note that there is a 50 MB limit on an attachment's file size. If your raw file is too large to attach, the best option is to share the file via a file-sharing service (Dropbox or similar) and then share the link in your feedback post. Thank you for continuing to provide feedback on this Tech Preview!

If you have already shared your raw file with us - thank you!

~Rikk

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Correct answer Conrad_C

This reply, earlier in this thread, explains why:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/p-reflection-removal-feedback-cr-amp-lrclassic/m-p/15405349#M28971

Also, it isn’t called “glare reduction.”

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Stefano53

Participating Frequently

Questo è il risultato

Riflessi.pdf

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Eric29489323q7t4

Adobe Employee

Thanks for posting. Is this a RAW or JPEG? If you're able to share the original, that could help as we are continuing to improve the product.

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Stefano53

Participating Frequently

Non rimuove i riflessi dal vetro anteriore dell'auto

KE_DP

Inspiring

Not for eyeglasses - all it does is blur the entire image.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

That’s expected…the feature is currently designed to remove reflections in a window filling the entire image frame between camera and subject. Eyeglasses only cover a small area of the frame so they aren’t handled yet. But in the original Adobe blog post announcing reflection removal, they did say they’d like to handle eyeglasses in a future update.

Since the blog post was published last December they did add support for some non-raw formats, extended the feature to Lightroom, and just introduced dust removal, so they’re definitely working through the items in that list.

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Eric29489323q7t4

Adobe Employee

Please note that this tool does not blur the image. You may select "Best" quality setting, and full image details will be output. You may use "Preview" to create images for various purposes: social media posts, or quickly checking the result of the tool before investing time to render full details.

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Andreii31635002hy1v

Participating Frequently

as it seems to me, but Blur works faster

And the reflection is not even touched

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Eric29489323q7t4

Adobe Employee

This is the intended result for the photo above. To learn how to use this tool for situations like the one you have posted, please refer to the post just above yours. That post was by kastalia67_s, Aug 14, 2025

Note that the quality setting will add more detail to your results.

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Andreii31635002hy1v

Participating Frequently

so remove it from Ligntroom if it doesn't work there, and you need to export it first to Tiff and then use CameraRAV as a plugin in Photoshop, that is, complete nonsense, the instructions say it works in Ligntroom, but in truth you need to scratch the right ear through the left one

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Kelly33964226z297

Participant

I have followed these insructions step by step and nothing was removed. The reflections are still there.

serge_l

Participating Frequently

Hello from France, I tried all options of the reflection feature, with not luck. The picture does not change at all. (Preview, Standard, Best, and cursor at full right (+100) or at center (0) gives same image. I tried also cropping to see only the window of the car, same result. There is NOT ANY change in the reflections !

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Eric29489323q7t4

Adobe Employee

This is a photo of a car, the scenery behind the car, the street, and a person sitting inside of the car. There is not a pane of glass between the camera and those things. The tool has therefore correctly detected that there is not a pane of glass that covers the field of view of the camera, and has therefore removed nothing from the photo. This is the intended and desired result for the tool. In the future we hope to support removing reflections from small objects. Please check out the Adobe blog to learn more about this tool.

serge_l

Participating Frequently

With my eyes I can clearly see a pane of window between the camera and the girl in the car (let me be clear : the girl is seen through the rear window of the car - the window is fix and cannot be opened). This is a RAW photo by the way. So I don't understand your statement "the tool has therefore correctly detected that there is not a pane of glass that covers the field of view of the camera". Do I speak to a human or an IA here ?

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Susan Allan Photography

Participant

Not all of the reflections were removed from the image, only those on the right side. This has left a rather large amount of reflections which need to be removed from the left side. However the tool would not allow a further rework, as the box was already ticked and it seems to consider the work as complete.

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Susan Allan Photography

Participant

Hi , can you please remove this reply as it was meant to go in as a new post!

Thanks.

brian704

Inspiring

I tried on this image with an obvious reflection and there was NO change to the image - If I lower the slider, I just have a black frame. - Windows system

I tried to crop the image so it only contained the reflection, but the result was the same

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Eric29489323q7t4

Adobe Employee

You will get best results on RAW images. Cropping JPEG/HEIC files can improve the result on those files, but RAW formats will always work best. When using RAW, cropping doesn't affect the result; you should zoom in. As with all features, there may sometimes be cases when it does not work. We are continuing to improve the tool, so do stay tuned for updates.

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No Quarter

Participant

I haven't tested it on many images but I have a heic picture sent from a client with reflections in large windows. The slider just blacks out the whole image when taken to -100. No reflections are removed at either end of the slider. Windows 10. Using Best Quality. Same effect on Camera RAW in Photoshop Beta as in Lightroom Classic.

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Eric29489323q7t4

Adobe Employee

Please consider posting the photo if you can. Without seeing the photo it's difficult to help. In general, when the tool removes nothing, its because there is not a pane of glass covering the view of your camera. And, when the tool removes nothing, that means the reflection is a black image—no reflection. Also keep in mind that you will get best results on RAW photos, rather than HEIC.

joseparre

Participant

cuando trato de quitar reflejos en camera raw, empieza el proceso y obtengo una imagen corrupta, con colores extraños. He probado a quitar el acelarlador gráfico y todo lo que me han contado, pero sigue todo igual.

Mando una captura dl problema:

muchas gracias

Srishti_Bali

Legend

Hi @joseparre

Sorry to hear you’re running into this. To help figure out what’s causing it, could you please share:

System Info – In Photoshop, go to Help > System Info, then copy and paste the details here.
Whether the issue happens with all images or only certain files.

This will help us narrow down whether it’s a system compatibility problem or something specific to certain images.

Regards,

Srishti

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