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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:
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:
When using the slider, the key values to note are:
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:
How best to use Reflection Removal
For best results, try the new feature following these suggestions:
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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I think I figured it out - it was a reflection in a window in the background that couldn't be removed. When I did a test shot through a window, it worked well.
Are you sure you're using the 'best' setting and not 'preview'? Preview will certainly show you a blurry pic. But on certain images, reflection removal removes too much, and you get a muddle. Adjusting the intensity slider can help.
Removing eyeglass reflections is a goal Adobe mentioned in their blog post from last December (Removing window reflections in Adobe Camera Raw), so at least we know they’re interested in working on it.
Those results are consistent with a lot of the reports in this thread…it works fine on recent computers (for Macs, that means Apple Silicon M1 through M4 work great), but there seems to be a problem with the graphics drivers for the GPU in some Intel Macs, and this feature relies heavily on the GPU. Because Mac graphics drivers are supplied by Apple, it might need a macOS update to get fixed. But we never know exactly what Apple will fix in the next macOS update, so no guarantees.
Did you by any chance just use the 'preview' mode instead of the best mode? A lot of people have been making that error, and the preview mode is intentionally low res.
Seems Quality is on "preview". Try setting it on "best".
Eric,
do I understand it well the reflections will only be removed when the glass plate fills the whole frame of the picture. As it won't remove reflections from a windows that's part of a larger picture.
I tried to cut part of the picture, so only a small part of the window remains. Feed only the small part to the reflection removal and paste it back into the original picture, using Photoshop. It's not perfect, but ..
I noticed doing this, the reflection feature reacts differently than using the entire picture. With the entire picture I can't get any reflection off either.
well Eric, since I tempory used the jpg picture kastalia67_s provided, I had to work in jpeg. I only shoot RAW and I only use Ps. Just wanted to see what it would do if I narrowed the view to just a part of that car window like it was one whole picture. And it did work.
If I can use that technique with a RAW, the result can only be better.
Looking forward to see support for small panes of glass in RAW.
FitzFoto, that suggestion will not work. That crop will not change the RAW result. To remove reflections from a cropped region you must convert the RAW image to a PNG/TIFF/JPEG.
Here is one workflow:
1. Open the image in Lightroom.
2. Make a virtual copy, and crop the virtual copy
3. Export the original and cropped image as TIFF files
4. Open the original and cropped TIFF in Photoshop
5. Use the Camera RAW filter to remove reflections from the cropped image
6. Copy the clean, cropped image int
...Kastalia, please precisely follow the steps I enumerated. It will work. There are other variants that will work, but not what you did.
FitzFhoto, as you probably know, when you crop a RAW photo in Lr or ACR, the underlying image is not modified. Specifying a crop simply tells Lr/ACR how to render that RAW image onto your screen. The remove reflections tool operates before the crop is applied by Lr/ACR when your RAW is rendered onto your screen. Why? There is a long list of usability issues th
...Hi Eric,
I just tested your steps, precisely.
Screen capture shows you a little reflection suppress in part of the girls face.
Well it is the best I could achieve up to now.
Here are the steps :
1. Open the image in Lightroom.
2. Make a virtual copy, and crop the virtual copy
3. Export the original and cropped image as TIFF files
4. Open the original and cropped TIFF in Photoshop
5. Use the Camera RAW filter to remove reflections from the cropped image
6. Copy the clean, cropped image into the original
7.
...That explains, why it removed some of the reflections in my workflow. I didn't actually crop the picture. I marked the area, copied, created a new image and paste only that part. So, it had no other information of a larger picture when I applied the reflection removal.
Then I copied the result back to the original picture and aligned it.
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 introdu
...We can all see the reflections in the floor, but from what Adobe has said throughout this thread and in their blog post, the feature is currently designed to more clearly reveal what’s showing behind the reflections in a large transparent glass window covering the entire frame. Although they might cover more use cases later.
Removing the reflections from the floor with the current version of this feature wouldn’t be expected to reveal anything behind the floor, because the floor isn’t supposed
...Not always, but it's better on RAW pictures as they contain more detail information.
But if the glass plate with the reflection doesn't cover the whole image, it doesn't work on RAW either.
This reply, earlier in this thread, explains why:
Also, it isn’t called “glare reduction.”
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Please share what type of machine, operating system, and graphics card you are using. This usually results from specific graphics cards
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I understand the reflection tool only works on RAW files but I am HOPING it will work on JPG files in the future -- I have so many photos with my android phone with reflections to be removed this would be a real game changer!!
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This is known and in work, as the tool is still a tech preview.
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I tried three different raw files showing framed images behind glass, it did not remove any reflections at all but merely raised the overall contrast.
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Please share the images and read the blog, which explains the cases that the tool is intended to solve for you.
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Before and after.
At less than 100
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Please share your system information: machine type, operating system version, and graphics card.
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Reposting a previous post as I see you have asked others for more system details.
"On my Windows 10 computer I tested this tool on over a dozen NEF files dating from 2006 to 2025. As I reported below, the results were good to very good. I didn't have technical difficulties. My workflow was exporting NEF to PS which opened a nef-file copy in CR. I also successfully used the workflow recommended in this thread i.e. from LR - edit in - open as Smart Object in PS
I since upgraded to a completely new computer with Windows 11 and I reinstalled my Adobe LR, PS and CR with the same preferences and settings in all 3 tools as previously. I now get corrupt files every time.
I have tried my old workflow and the one recommended in this thread, but in both cases I get a corrupt image. I've tested the same NEF images on both computers and have no issues on the old Windows 10 PC but always get a corrupt image in the new PC setup."
AMD Ryzen 5 7500 F 6 core processor
AMD Radeon /600
ASUS Motherboard 4.05.06
Windows 11
Adobe LR Classic 14.11
Adobe Photoshop 2025 26.3.0.156
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I just tried this on a Fujifilm Raw file (X100VI). The result was unusable, no matter the amount of removal used.
This is the link to the 86Mb file: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p8gpmz6uoark7gr4acxm0/DSCF2328.RAF?rlkey=4dz22b0zloxn4xiy6kpgw88k7&dl...
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We note in the blog that remove reflections will not hallucinate content to fill in saturated light sources (etc). Instead you will get noisy content, like you see in this result. You can use generative fill if you'd like to fill those holes. I would suggest that you open the original and cleaned images as layers in a 16-bit PS file to blend them into a composite that gives you a nice result with fewer reflections and artifacts.
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This feature is completely amazing! I removed the reflection from a NEF (Nikon RAW) photo of a wedding dress though a store window. It had the reflection of a drainpipe running through it. The tool COMPLETELY removed the drainpipe and street reflections. I also was able to dial back the distraction the other way (to -100) and saw a complete image of a doorway, drainpipe and cobblestone street that had been behind me, reflected in the window. I couldn't believe the detail it isolated, and the fact that it could tell that an electrical conduit was a reflection in the store mirror and not an outside artifact. Crazy good! Look forward to this being included in LR which is my primary editing platform!
Attachments (please ignore the unedited color balance...) Original image with reflection, ACR version with reflection removed, ACR just the outside reflection. Very impressed!!
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Thanks! So glad you're happy with the result.
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Have 2020 Imac 64GB ram. Reflections check box greyed out. Using canon Canon converted to DNG file by Lightroom Classic.
Any suggestions?
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The box should be enabled for Canon raw files, so the first thing to check is that you’re sending images to Camera Raw with a workflow that is 100% raw from end to end. Common mistakes include using the Photo > Edit In > Photoshop command in Lightroom Classic (which converts it out of raw to a Photoshop document), and using the Camera Raw Filter (the filter version is not the full raw processor).
I listed three ways that do work in a number of earlier posts in this thread, here’s one:
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There is a known problem with Raedon graphics cards. The manufacturer is working on a fix.
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Merci Eric
J'attends avec impatience que Adobe trouve une solution avec la carte Raedon, car j'ai beaucoup de photographies avec des reflets sur des vitrines.
Merci de votre réponse
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Hi Eric and Team,
I just updated to Camera Raw 17.2, LR Classic 14.2 and PS 26.3 and the tool is now working very well.
Thank you for your hard work getting this fixed!
FYI:
NEF files dating from 2007 to 2025
AMD Ryzen 5 7500 F 6 core processor
AMD Radeon /600
ASUS Motherboard 4.05.06
Windows 11 Home 23H2 Build 22631.4890
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Michael bonjour
Nous n'avons pas de chance, nous qui avant d'un iMac avec une carte graphique Radeon.
J'espère qu'à la prochaine mise à jour de Camera RAW, Adobe corrigera cette insupportable erreur.
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This is a known issue with Radeon graphics cards. They are working on a fix.
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Reflection removal only made a tiny change in this image of dogs greeting me with heavy reflections: Doggos
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Thank you for sharing. This tool will not always succeed and we are working to expand the cases that it can handle.
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