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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.
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fwiw, this is an example that consistently fails: shooting through vehicle windows inside-out (ie, see white usb cable, dashboard on the bottom right of window). (note: I tried uploading original iphone .HEIC, but the form disallows, so did quick convert to jpg)
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Chris, is this photo only in HEIC format? Remove reflecions will work best when it is applied to RAW images.
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The tool is not supposed to remove any reflections from this photo. The fact that it removed the leg lamp is a red herring.
This is a photo of a family standing in front of a window. Also pictured are a porch, a window frame, and a window. There is not a pane of glass between the camera and those subjects. This tool should therefore do nothing. It made a mistake by removing something.
If you'd like, you can open the -100 and +100 images as layers in photoshop. You may be able to blend those images together to produce the result you wanted. But, this photo is not representative of the kinds of photos for which the tool is designed. Checkout the Adobe blog to learn more about this tool, and future plans.
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This is a nice feature, but I was not able to remove the reflection from the eye glasses that my freind was wearing
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Eye glasses are not supported. Please checkout the Adobe blog to learn more about what this tool does. This tool removes reflections from glass that covers your camera's field of view. It is designed to leave small reflections within the scene untouched. The blog discusses future improvements near the bottom, so do check it out.
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I tried this for an image I took of a cell phone user taking the same picture. (I was behind her) Unfortunately, the AI did nothing for just the phone glass. And since this was the only glass glare, the image was not improved. I look forward to the update where we can either choose where to apply the glare removal or the AI finds smaller areas (like phones) in the image itself.
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This is a photo of the ocean, a large rock formation, the sky, and someone's hands holding a cell phone. There is not a pane of glass between the camera and those subjects, so the intended result is for no reflection to be removed. The remove reflections tool has correctly detected that there is no glass, and so it has correctly done nothing.
Please check out the Adobe blog to learn more about what this tool does.
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guys, I've got this kind of image so something is not really working
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Please report your system information.
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hello
love all the features you bring .
Like remove refelctions, i also have read you bring this also in small objects.
Do you have an idea when this is coming to Lightroom.
And also maybe the possibility to adjust it with a mask.
hope to see it soon. 🙂
Edwin
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Do you have an idea when this is coming to Lightroom.
By @Edwin29468440kcj9
It’s probably coming. It’s already in Lightroom Classic, but I don’t see it in Lightroom on my iPad yet.
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This is a new feature, so please watch for updates and improvements.
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When using the reflection removal .. I've ensured that the photo I was working with in LRC .. exported to Photoshop Beta .. is sharp .. no adjustments .. and yet after the reflection removal everything is pretty much garbage .. so blurry it looks like I took the photos with my mobile phone .. its dreadful .. even backing off on some of the reflection removal
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Not sure how to work this better .. what might I need to consider there aren't many adjustments .. soo ..
Thanks
J
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Change the quality setting to best. The quality setting affects the sharpness, not the quality of the removal itself.
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The system does not allow a RAW or XMP upload.
Please add to the new features for reflection an ability to remove Lens Flare.
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Thanks for your suggestion!
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Just tried the remove reflection addition in Camera Raw. Using an M2 MacBook Pro, current versions of Adobe, OS etc so should be good to go. I have selected Ai option in ACR and tried it on the attached image with no success using Best setting, not basic. My aim, to see if it would remove reflection in glass case in this gallery image. No change however.
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This is a photo of people standing in an art gallery, talking among themselves and looking at artwork on a wall. There is not a pane of glass that is blocking the camera's view of those subjects. The tool has correctly detected that there is not a pane of glass, and has therefore correctly removed nothing. This is the intended and desired output of the tool. To learn more about what this tool does, checkout the Adobe blog.
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Here's one that didn't work for reflection removal. This is a crop from a photo with two people centered and large. It didn't work with both people, so I tried with this crop. The reflection removal tool did nothing.
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The photo seemed to upload but I don't see it. Not the first time this has happened.
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Please try to share the whole, uncropped photo, and don't forget to mention whether you are using a RAW format or JPEG
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When using irt on the whole image, that had windows and a fresh painted double door with some reflection (that was meant to be there), it only removed reflection from one of the doors leaving it a dark flat spot. So far not satisfied.....
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