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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
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The tool did not work. This is the result
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I get similar digital hash every time in WIndows but I have seen some passable results in X86 macOS with AMD graphics.
The Windows machine has newer and more powerful GPU/CPU than the Apple machine so not sure why the total failures.
Hopefully this will get to the level of Generative AI, even in Windows.
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The problem can also occur on Mac OS 15.1.1 with 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 when processing a Canon CR3 RAW file. I was giving it a spin on a photo of a storefront window. The results of 5+ minutes of processing were purple, cyan, green, and magenta blocks. I suppose it could be an Intel CPU and Radeon Pro 555X 4 GB GPU combination issue with older chipsets.
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The corrupt image result is a known problem on some Windows PCs for this technology preview. We are working on a fix for the next release. Thanks for your patience.
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It happens on a MBP (Intel) OS version 15.1.
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It also occurs on my IMAC 2019
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That destroys my theory that this is a M4 codeset issue. The crazy thing is I also tested on a 2019 MBP with the i7 Intel processor and it works. But after saying that, there have been times in the past where I had to quit Ps on the i7 and restart the app to resolve the problem on my 2019 computer.
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@markf74189407 @Ab van Polanen
Your issue is likely this: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-gpu-develop-edit-view-amp-export-artifacts-a...
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Yes but in PS
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Did this issue ever get resolved? I'm running a 2019 imac with Intel i5 processer and hadn't experienced any issues UNTIL the new Reflection Removal feature was released. When I try this I get the pixelated results that others have mentioned (usually related to PCs). Is this likely to be an intel incompatibility issue? I also have a 2023 M2 Macbook Air and the feature works perfectly there.
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The experience seems to be inconsistent because people are reporting the issue with Intel and Apple silicone.
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Hi Rikk thank you for the feedback - I went and read through the chain that you reference and saw that it was a potential issue that pre-dated the release of the Reflection Removal function.
I've not actually experienced any of the issues described on my 2019 Intel i5 mac in any of the Adobe programs UNTIL this reflection removal feature release.
I see from an earlier response that its a known issue:
"The corrupt image result is a known problem on some Windows PCs for this technology preview. We are working on a fix for the next release. Thanks for your patience."
However there doesn't seem to be any acknowledgement that the issue also affects older Macs. Do you know whether the fix being worked on for the next release will also address the failure on 2019 Macs?
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Thanks Rikk for your reply, but I don't see the connection to this problem although LrC, AcR, and Ps most likely share the same code library.
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Yes I got the same on a Mac
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This also happens on my Mac and I am trying it on a raw photo..
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same for me here ! i'm using a Mac Pro 2018 et I only get lots of pixels... sad :'(
I'm trying to save a photo for a client where we only can see a white car on the other side... this tool could change everything, but.. it dosen't work 😞
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I'm getting similar, takes ages to get the blue line to complete then i just get a screen full of lines then Photoshop freezes, tried it 5 times and get exactly the same result.
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I'm getting the sale result on an 2019 iMac. Just multicolored noise when I use the reflection tool. I'm applying it to a RAW file from a Lumix S9.
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I tried it on my MacBook Air with an M2 chip and the reflection too worked but didn't do a very good job removing the reflection.
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That´s what happened in my Mac Mini, too (macOs 15.3.2. 16 GT, intel UHD Graphics 630, 1536 Mt). The reflection removal app worked for several minutes and the end result was the same complete mess.
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Une nouvelle version de Adobe Bridge version 15.04. n'a rien changé.
La suppression des reflets est toujours très mauvais.
Pourquoi Adobe met tant de temps à résoudre ce problème..?
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