P: Reflection Removal feedback (CR & LrClassic)

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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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[GroomsPhotography]

in got a gret result but could not save the image back to LrC

[Yves-CH]

Bnjour, ça ne fonctionne pas bien dans le cas de réflrxions sur une surface de verre pas plane, j'ai essayé sur le format raw directement en tant qu'objet dynamique dans PS béta, les réflexions ne sont pas éliminées. Sur le fichier raw après avoir ammélioré le bruit dans LrC puis édité dans PSbéta et le plug-in CRW, c'est mieux mais pas encore concluant. Sur iMac M1 16 Go de ram. Vous trouverez les fichiers source et modifiés, ainsi que les paramètre de mon système dans le dossier suivant
https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/1d5e2ff2-8fb0-4cb5-886b-619cc707f3f1

Validité 30 jours

[Eric29489323q7t4]

This is the expected and intended result because there is nothing visible behind the reflection. The remove reflections tool will not hallucinate image content to replace reflections. If you'd like to do that, you can use generative fill. Check out the blog to learn more about what this tool is intended to do.

[André36678699dyam]

may 29th 2025 still not working for me on Mac Os.
Do have the most update versions of Photoshop and raw
See screenshot info mac.

[colmanc45976152]

André bonjour

Votre matériel iMac est exactement configuré comme le mien. Malheureusement l'application Adobe "Supprimer les reflets" ne fonctionne toujours pas avec notre carte graphique. Je vais finir par perdre patience et m'acheter un Mac Studio M4. Société de consomation qui met au rebus du matériel qui fonctionne bien encore. 🤨

[André36678699dyam]

Merci. Mais si vous pouvez acheter un mac à puce M4, alors vous êtes un homme riche.
André

[colmanc45976152]

Pauvre en moyens et riche en passion photographique.

[André36678699dyam]

Votre première réaction suggère le contraire

[richardh36631013]

Excellent feature for a Mac user! But it still pnly works in RAW, not jpeg or other filetypes for me. Must be missing something.

[Icyhot711]

Love the new feature! I take A LOT of ice hockey photos and at certain angles shooting through the glass gets rough and this tool helps bring it back from the grave.  I'd really like it if there was a way to batch processes with the tool and integrated to lightroom

[Conrad_C]

Reflection removal might not be in Lightroom yet (I hope it will because I usually use Lightroom Classic), but batch processing in Camera Raw is possible. In Camera Raw 17.3.1 I tested whether Reflection Removal would update if I loaded multiple images into the filmstrip and selected all of them, and reflection removal did update all selected images at once as I made changes, as shown in the demo below.

The demo is not sped up, but I had already done the initial removal so it seems responsive because the results were already cached. And I had it set to the rough Preview level of Quality. At Best quality it takes much longer to re-render all selected images. 

[Icyhot711]

Thanks, so what's your work flow? select multiple in bridge and send to ACR denoise, reflections, edit to color and save as jpeg?  just forget cataloging in the meantime? I just learned Lightroom classic like 3 months ago so trying to figure out the other half

[Conrad_C]

I do base my workflow around Lightroom Classic. That means when Adobe tests Technology Previews in Camera Raw before adding it to the Lightroom apps, yes I do play with and test the preview features in Camera Raw, but I don’t start trying to integrate them with Lightroom Classic until the feature is fully finished and added to Lightroom Classic too.

I did the same thing with Denoise when it first appeared as a Technology Preview in Camera Raw. I tried it in Camera Raw so I could get to know it, but I did not try to integrate it with Lightroom Classic until Adobe officially added it to Lightroom Classic. Of course there were a few times when I really needed it, so I would have Lightroom Classic send the image to Camera Raw.

The reason I do it this way is that I lived for years without these features, so I figure that instead of spending a lot of time on fragile workarounds that would only be temporary, I can wait a little longer until the Tech Preview features are finalized and added to the application I prefer to use, Lightroom Classic.

I do understand that your situation is different. You are always shooting hockey through glass, so being able to use reflection removal would get you a huge benefit right now. In your case it can be worth it to do the bulk shoot processing through Camera Raw so you can do bulk reflection removal before you export and deliver the shoots.

If I was in your shoes, I think I would continue to catalog these shoots in Lightroom Classic. But if there is a shoot that really needs bulk reflection removal, I would process it in Camera Raw, which would save the changes in sidecar files (.xmp and .acr). When a future update of Lightroom Classic supports reflection removal, you can use the Read Metadata from File command to read in the Camera Raw edits including the reflection removal data in those sidecar files. Because Lightroom Classic can’t currently read reflection removal data, it might be a good idea to just do all the editing in Camera Raw for now so that you don’t create conflicting edits that can’t be reconciled. But for now that means Lightroom Classic won’t show edits made in Camera Raw. 

[Conrad_C]

Thanks, so what's your work flow? select multiple in bridge and send to ACR denoise, reflections, edit to color and save as jpeg?  just forget cataloging in the meantime? I just learned Lightroom classic like 3 months ago so trying to figure out the other half

By @Icyhot711

As of today, you no longer need a workaround. Lightroom Classic 14.4 includes both Reflections and People in the Distraction Removal section of the Remove tool.

[davids78993381]

I have tried this one several times without success.  I even printed it an photographed the print to get a raw file format version.  The raw file format version worked partially, but not well enough to be useful.  

[Eric29489323q7t4]

A RAW photo of a printed image is not the same as a RAW photo of the scene that was captured in the image. Regardless, you can now use reflection removal on non-RAW images in photoshop, but note that reflection removal works best on RAW photos. Reflection removal does not always succeed, but we are continuing to improve it. 

[ThioJoe]

Here's photo of a computer where it did a good job for most of it, but completely missed the reflection of the table near the bottom of the case:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ib5FstPJDuaLD5ELjfW944cLXuFCYHea/view?usp=sharing

Windows System Info:

Using Photoshop  26.7.0 20250513.r.15 e861f5e x64,  Camera raw 17.3.1.2227
Windows Version: Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 (Build 26100.4202)

System Hardware:
CPU: Intel 13900KS
GPU: Nvidia 5090 FE
GPU Driver Version: 576.52

[Doğaner68]

Hello... the reflection removal performance on the glasses is close to 0. The computer I use; Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 185H- Installed RAM: 64 GB (63.6 GB usable)- NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 8GB- windows 11 pro

[Gubariu32535898fror]

Did not work on the attached photo.

[DaubsLisa]

I took photos of framed art pieces with glass. Example of one attached. I tried out the new AI Reflections removal tool. You will see the before and after - there is almost no difference or reflections removed.

Great idea to have this tool. I look forward to it working within this scenario of glass with art pieces. Thanks, Cheers, Lisa.

[cavigu]

Buenas noches con fotos de dia el proceso es muy bueno pero las fotos de noche no hace el minimo trabajo en cualquiera de las modalidades, y es cuando mas reflejos hay.

[Kristina C.]

It's still not working on my iMac . I updated Photoshop this morning. Any ideas if this will be fixed ? 

[Chapps-LA]

OK, you folks asked for an example of denoise interfering with reflection removal, and I've got a good one. In the attached images, I've included one JPEG export without any work - no denoise, no reflection removal. I've also included a version where I use the reflection removal *preview*, showing a very good result (albeit in low res, as preview functions). Then I show a version where I've just used the denoise tool, and a version of the image where the denoise tool was used first, *then* the best setting of reflection removal ... with terrible results. If I don't use denoise, then I get fantastic reflection removal results - but if I do use denoise, the reflections aren't really removed. I've run across this many times before. 

If I use the manual noise reduction tools, the reflection removal results remain the same. It's just the automated denoise tool that interferes with the reflection removal. Here's the original RAW file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O3r6nArTGcDg0DiZPZ6PIxKpA15ILrbv/view?usp=sharing 

[Eric29489323q7t4]

Hi Chapps. Thanks for sharing this result. I agree with you that this suggests that there could be an interaction between denoise and remove reflections. While one or two images alone can't prove it, it seems plausible. We'll continue to improve this feature in the future. 

[André36678699dyam]

it still doesn't work for me in both photoshop version (beta) on mac os