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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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It should be possible to attach a raw file. Try again.
They'll need the raw file to test. This doesn't work on jpegs.
If you can't get it to work, use wetransfer and send the file to yourself. Then post the download link here.
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I've moved your post from Photoshop to the Adobe Camera Raw forum.
"The Reflection Removal tool in Adobe Camera Raw simplifies removing reflections from photos taken through glass windows. This tool eliminates large and prominent window reflections in just a few steps, allowing your image's subject to stand out clearly."
Be sure to read the steps here: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/remove-reflections.html
Jane
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https://we.tl/t-f7RN1BTQYA ...lets try this wetransfter link. Never used this before.
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Some hardware has issues. Below is a result from my MacBook. We are working on fixing bugs with specific hardware platforms.
Result from macbook
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Wow... I will try and see if any of my windows user friends have the same or different results..Thank you.
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This is a classic example of the best this new function has to offer. Look at the reflected content! I know everyone is busy asking for improvements and reporting bugs, but taking a moment, I'd like to compliment your team on this tool. It's allowed me to rescue images that I had long thought would be impossible to use. I wish some of my older images were in RAW format, because I have a ton that would be incredible to rescue (I've learned my lesson, and nearly everything I've shot in the last year or so is now RAW).
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Thanks for noticing!
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La eliminacion de reflejos sigue sin funcionar.
Sale un error "..error desconocido"
A alguien mas le pasa?? Gracias
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This is not working with Fuji RAF files from my X-T5. Even when converted to DNG using Adobe's DNG Converter, it says it is not compatible with this format.
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Please consider sharing the raw file so we can test. You can use something like wetransfter, as another poster has done.
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I downloaded an XT5 .RAF raw file from a camera review website, and reflection removal is available and working.
Make sure you:
If it still doesn’t work, maybe it’s one of the hardware combinations that Adobe is working to increase compatibility with.
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Did not remove reflections from eyeglasses...This may be out of range of the beta,
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Yes, you’re right. The Adobe blog post linked near the beginning of the first post says:
What's next?
We're planning to support JPEGs, HEICs, and other non-raw files. We're also looking into removing small reflections like eyeglasses and distant windows. We'd also like to extend our tool to the removal of dust, scratches, rain, snow, or other things that land on windows (bugs on windshields?) Finally, while this beta is available only through Camera Raw, we plan to bring an expanded version to the entire Lightroom ecosystem.
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Please bring it to Lightroom.....soon!
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Dear Reader, it doesn't work with RAF(Raw from Fuji) files from Fuji and did also not work with the Raw from Apple iPhone 14 Pro, what do I do wrong... I think I did right to set the settings correct, so? I am living in the Netherlands and using the English UI, far more easier because of translation to the Dutch language...Grretz from Guus
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i uploaded into PS directly, did not upload fromo LRC, then it worked, that is all I can offer.
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Not only works great with glass reflections but also it removes chain links obstructions from images. But the best, removes haze caused by out of focus leaves. See images.
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I have tried to use the reflection removal tool with noise reduction and adaptive preset to no avail. It doesn't matter which order you do them in, but the reflection removal just doesn't work with the other tools.
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Please consider sharing your RAW images to demonstrate.
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I'm finding that the remove reflections doesnt work on my Mac ( OS 15.1.1 ).I am using NEF files and uploading to PS from LR.
Is ther something that I'm missing please?
John
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I was having issues, and I uploaded to my desktop, then i dropped them into PS and it worked for me. When I tried from LRC to PS it would not work.
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If you read through this forum, you'll find the answers to many of your questions including this one. From Lightroom Classic, you must open in photoshop *as a smart object*, and then double click the layer in photoshop to open the camera raw tool.
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Thanks for the reply back, will do this going forward.
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