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P: Reflection Removal feedback (CR & LrClassic)

Adobe Employee ,
Nov 05, 2024 Nov 05, 2024

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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New Here , May 13, 2025 May 13, 2025

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. 

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Contributor , Jun 28, 2025 Jun 28, 2025

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. 

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Community Expert , Jul 07, 2025 Jul 07, 2025

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. 

 

Adobe-remove-reflections-blog-post-eyeglasses.png

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Community Expert , Jul 07, 2025 Jul 07, 2025

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.

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Contributor , Jul 20, 2025 Jul 20, 2025

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.

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Explorer , Aug 02, 2025 Aug 02, 2025

Seems Quality is on "preview". Try setting it on "best".

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Explorer , Aug 12, 2025 Aug 12, 2025

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. 

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Explorer , Aug 14, 2025 Aug 14, 2025

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.

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Explorer , Aug 15, 2025 Aug 15, 2025

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.

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Adobe Employee , Aug 15, 2025 Aug 15, 2025

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

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Adobe Employee , Aug 15, 2025 Aug 15, 2025

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

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Community Beginner , Aug 15, 2025 Aug 15, 2025

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.

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Explorer , Aug 16, 2025 Aug 16, 2025

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.

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Community Expert , Aug 20, 2025 Aug 20, 2025

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

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 29, 2025 Jul 29, 2025

It will be easier if you share an example photo and a screen capture of the output. 

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New Here ,
Jul 29, 2025 Jul 29, 2025

Here is Lightroom Classic 14.4 and on every single image I apply the reflection filter I got this gold filter. It does not matter if I go to 0% or to 100%. It's all crippled like this on every single image.


I use SONY A7 camera and using raw files (ARW).

Any advice what might be wrong?

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 29, 2025 Jul 29, 2025

Please post the details of your system OS and hardware.

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New Here ,
Aug 01, 2025 Aug 01, 2025

Windows 11

ROG G14 (2024) 

nVidia 4070 8GB

AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

32GB RAM

 

It does the same even when I set BEST option. 

 

All drivers, software and system up to date. It does from the very beginning this function appeared. I've never seen it working. 

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 04, 2025 Aug 04, 2025

The quality setting only produces a higher resolution result. You can use the lower quality settings to quickly test---that's the point of them. 

 

I believe this hardware has a known issue. I will let you know if I hear otherwise, but I'm almost certian that it is a hardware driver issue. 

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New Here ,
Aug 04, 2025 Aug 04, 2025
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The quality setting only produces a higher resolution result. You can use the lower quality settings to quickly test---that's the point of them. 

 

I believe this hardware has a known issue. I will let you know if I hear otherwise, but I'm almost certian that it is a hardware driver issue. 


By @Eric29489323q7t4

 

Please let me know what to do.

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 04, 2025 Aug 04, 2025

Thanks for reporting the problems you see. I would like to get some more in-depth info about your system as well as a copy of the ARW file itself

DxDiag report

The tool dxdiag produces a report that can be helpful to the engineering team while investigating problems.

  1. Press the Windows key on your keyboard or click the Windows button in the taskbar.
  2. Type 'dxdiag' (this does a search for the program).
  3. Press the Enter key.
  4. Wait for the DxDiag window to appear.
  5. When it's enabled click the Save All Information button.
  6. Save the DxDiag.txt file and submit it when reporting problems.


Second, please share with us a log file from Classic covering when this happens.
1. Launch classic
2. Use remove relfectioons on one file.
3. Quit Classic
4. Collect the Classic log file from this location on your PC:

  • On Windows, the log location is: %APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw\Logs. A shortcut to get to this folder on Windows is:
    1. Press the Windows key.
    2. Enter 'Run'.

Enter '%APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw\Logs'.

Find the log files with names that include "Lightroom Classic"

Thanks for your help,
David





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New Here ,
Aug 04, 2025 Aug 04, 2025

I have been playing with the nVidia drivers and it started to work. Here is the procedure I have made and it works. now. Here's what I did.

- clean installation by the Studio drivers 577.00

 

The reflection feature works.

 

Then I have made clean installation of the Game Ready drivers version 580.88

- the reflection feature starts to work now

 

Thank you for your support but I can not give you the required data as it works now.

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 04, 2025 Aug 04, 2025

Thanks for letting us know you were able to fix the problem by updating your NVIDIA driver. You may also want to update the GPU driver for your AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS, the Radeon 780M. In case Windows changes the default GPU to the Radeon, the remove reflection feature will use it.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 31, 2025 Jul 31, 2025

Just adding to the mix with what I'm finding.  I used the distraction removal (reflection) tool on this jpeg, quality set to Best.   As you can see, the reflected picture frame on the left was dealt with, but not the reflection of the strip lights.  

Before: Screenshot 2025-07-31 at 18.42.36.png

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 31, 2025 Jul 31, 2025

Please note that this tool will work best on RAW images. If you intend to capture a photo with a reflection, consider capturing RAW for that particular shot. Most cameras (including mobile devices) allow this option.

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Explorer ,
Aug 02, 2025 Aug 02, 2025

Hi Rikk,

 

I'm using v. 14.4 on Mac M1 Max

 

Results are not good—when remove reflections is applied, the photo ends up very blurry.

 

Here it is without remove reflections (original):

 

Screenshot 2025-08-02 at 6.31.48 PM.png

 

And here it is with Reflections removal applied:

 

Screenshot 2025-08-02 at 6.31.59 PM.png

 

Thanks.

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Explorer ,
Aug 02, 2025 Aug 02, 2025

Seems Quality is on "preview". Try setting it on "best".

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Explorer ,
Aug 02, 2025 Aug 02, 2025

That works, thank you!

 

Took processing from 7 seconds to 7 minutes but worth it.

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New Here ,
Aug 02, 2025 Aug 02, 2025

I was taking pictures of birds , which were behind fencing. I used distraction removal / reflections to remove some of the fence lines on the birds. Worked unbelievably  well. 

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 04, 2025 Aug 04, 2025

Thanks for letting us know. Could you post a before/after result? If you share the originals for testing that could also be quite helpful. 

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New Here ,
Aug 03, 2025 Aug 03, 2025

I photographed  night landscape with  the moon through the hotel window. relexion removal, removed the moon.

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 04, 2025 Aug 04, 2025

Would you be willing to share the image so I can see what the situation was?

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Explorer ,
Aug 06, 2025 Aug 06, 2025

You asked me to provide reference images to understand the problem. Any image processed with the new reflection removal feature generates an unknown error at exactly 26% of the reflection removal process. The image in question is a CR2 file; no editing was performed before removing the reflections using updated Photoshop and Camera Raw.

Updated Windows 10 Pro hardware, 32GB RAM, NVIDIA K1200 graphics card

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 06, 2025 Aug 06, 2025

Please collect and share with us the following log files.

DxDiag report

The tool dxdiag produces a report that can be helpful to the engineering team while investigating problems.

  1. Press the Windows key on your keyboard or click the Windows button in the taskbar.
  2. Type 'dxdiag' (this does a search for the program).
  3. Press the Enter key.
  4. Wait for the DxDiag window to appear.
  5. When it's enabled click the Save All Information button.
  6. Save the DxDiag.txt file and submit it when reporting problems.

 

Application Logs

Second, please share with us a log file from Camera Raw covering when this happens.
1. Launch Photoshop and open the photo in Camera Raw
2. Use remove relfectioons on one file.
3. Close Camera Raw and quit Photoshop
4. Collect the Camera Raw log file from this location on your PC:

  • On Windows, the log location is: %APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw\Logs. A shortcut to get to this folder on Windows is:
    1. Press the Windows key.
    2. Enter 'Run'.

Enter '%APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw\Logs'.

Find the log files with names that include "Camera Raw"

Thanks for your help,
David

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Explorer ,
Aug 06, 2025 Aug 06, 2025

@David Franzen at Work here are the files asked. Thank you.

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 06, 2025 Aug 06, 2025

Thank you -- I will look at the log to see if we can determine what caused the error.

For now I suggest that you first try to update your GPU driver, by looking for a new version here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

I can see from the DxDiag.txt file that your driver is dated: : 18/10/2023 02:00:00. I don't know if NVIDIA has an update, but you should be able to search for one on their website.

Please let us know if updating the driver helps.

Thanks,
David

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New Here ,
Aug 06, 2025 Aug 06, 2025

I wanted to remove the reflections in the glasses of a subject I was shooting. Not sure I'm doing this correctly but it was a fail. Thanks for any help. 

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 06, 2025 Aug 06, 2025

This tool will not remove reflections from small or distant panes of glass, and that includes eye glasses. Check out the Adobe blog to learn more about what this tool does.

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Explorer ,
Aug 07, 2025 Aug 07, 2025

I'm really not having any luck with this with a Monochrom raw file. This was taken from inside a cablecar/gondola/ropeway and I don't get any help with the reflections. 

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Something I'm doing wrong?
Thanks, Michael

 

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