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Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
November 5, 2024
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P: Reflection Removal feedback (CR & LrClassic)

  • 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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    yvesthebiker
    Participant
    February 3, 2026

    Spiegelungen entfernen funktioniert weder in Camera Raw noch in Lightroom Classic. 

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    DLGillikin
    Participant
    February 1, 2026

    When you release a new command, I tend to push it way past its limit.

     

    Edvapo123
    Edvapo123
    Participant
    January 30, 2026

    Hallo,mijn reflecties verwijderen werken niet ,ik heb 00resultaat,voor de rest is lightroom een geweldig programma.

    Wanneer gaan jullie eens een enstelling hebben voor stof verwijderen.

    Dank voor eventueel antwoord.

    groetjes.

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      cjs849
      Participating Frequently
      January 27, 2026

      See enclosed photo…  I have found that about 50% of the time the SW does not find the reflection.  In some cases it does not find all of it. 

       There needs to be a way to select the reflection(s) that you wish to remove.  Just leaving it to the SW does not seem to work.

       

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      KenFong
      Participant
      November 21, 2025

      needs a further improvement ..still not doing its best..reflections still showing after applied ..file attached for your perusal

      kent

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      ZappaJul
      Participating Frequently
      November 16, 2025

      BRAVO!  Reflection Removal is amazing! It just saved at least 30 minutes of fiddling with a distracting reflection on a photo of a glass cabinet. It did a great job of recognising and restoring photographs, ship, and book (see  (A) on screen shot (1)); implemented the intelligent removal of a shadow that was only visible in the first place due to the reflection that was removed (B). The ability to see what was being reflected is also quite extraordinary.

      Development Request: Add option to apply to either the whole image OR a mask selection. This would be very helpful where one setting doesn't work with all parts of the image.  EG: Reducing the reflection removal on the right side of the image to 95% gave a great result – realism without distraction. However, I also wanted to retain a little reflection on the left side of the cabinet, but that vanished altogether with the corrct setting for the rest if the image.

       

      Fail: Tool unable to detect standing and seated figures and railing underlying reflections that include what appears to be someone's feet (See (C) on screen shot. I think it's actually sofa cusions). It is admittedly difficult, but so were the thigs it did well at. I thought this might be overcome by duplicating file, cropping to reveal only that part of the image, re-setting > re-doing Distraction Removal and blending layers in PS, but no dice; the Reflection Removal result was identical to that of the whole image.  (D and E). The result is a very bright reflection at the bottom which is out of keeping with the rest of the image (3). (It was made less noticeable via Masking, but is nevertheless hard to un-see!).

       

      I can't share whole file due to client privacy, but hopefully screenshots useful.

       

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      hotel-pretzelvania
      Participant
      November 16, 2025

      This did not remove the reflections in the window whatsoever. cyka blyat

      ThomasH_on_the_web
      ThomasH_on_the_web
      Inspiring
      November 16, 2025

      In my case the tool did the opposite of the expected: The reflection in the glass stayed, but the bottom of the fish tank was replace by a dark area. File one is the "original", file *-2 is the result of the reflection removal.

      patrickt2748351
      patrickt2748351
      Participant
      November 15, 2025

      Hi folks.  I've used this feature a couple of times (background : Canon R5 and R6 cameras using CR3 files) - a few times it has worked and a few times it has not.  The latest attempt. which is a scene that has windows with massive reflections I'd like to use, there is zero percent improvement.  I haven't found a place to upload the image yet, but since it is under 50MB I will upload it here.  I'm sort of gathering that this feature might not be for partial reflections.  I've not had  a lot of luck masking it and that is a lot of work since there are areas where the shades are too close for the auto masking to work well.  Would appreciate any Adobe or photographer thoughts as to how to approach this (other than the obvious "use different lighting" which was my conclusion as soon as I saw these).

      patrickt2748351
      patrickt2748351
      Participant
      November 15, 2025

      2nd try on attachment  - 

      Correct the highlighted errors and try again.

      The attachment's 112021003467_2024_05_24_2092.cr3 content type (image/CR3) does not match its file extension and has been removed.

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      Eric29489323q7t4
      Adobe Employee
      November 17, 2025

      You can just upload a jpg version. Honestly, this feature rarely fails for me. The vast majority of failures that are reported on this forum occur when folks try to use the feature in a way that it was not intended to be used—however reasonable their use case is, there are use cases that we chose not to handle for the initial release. If you post the photo as a jpg, I can let you know if it aligns with the intended use cases for the tool. 

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      obada_3704
      Participant
      November 9, 2025

      I was using it with glass behind my main subject, it blared my main subject

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