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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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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This feature needs a lot more work—it's definitely still in its alpha stage.
I’ll report back with my findings, but for now… this tool is far from ready.
By @David ART
Hi David,
Be sure to read
- https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/remove-reflections.html
- https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/12/12/removing-window-reflections-adobe-camera-raw
Also note that the first link tells you:
"This feature is currently available as a Technology Preview. Use the Provide feedback option to share your thoughts directly with the Camera Raw team."
You posted to the Photoshop forum and this feature is available in Adobe Camera Raw. I've moved your post to the ACR forum.
Jane
EDIT: I see that staff has merged your post to the primary thread, so they have read it.
You’ll want to adjust your testing plan to account for what the feature is intended to do right now, and also, with a full understanding of the raw workflow. As written, the conclusions were based on assumptions that aren’t correct.
Most of my headshot clients wear glasses, so I thought—what a perfect opportunity to test Lightroom’s new Reflection Removal feature!
Spoiler Alert: Lightroom Classic and Photoshop had other plans.
By @David ART
Not a spoiler, because…Adobe already noted that the eyeglasses scenario is out of scope at this time. When they released the Tech Preview of this feature in December, they posted an informative blog article (Removing window reflections in Adobe Camera Raw) that 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.
Also, for best results, the testing methodology needs to be refined:
I quickly realized Reflection Removal isn’t available in Lightroom Classic (LrC)—only in Camera Raw via Photoshop. Okay, annoying, but not a dealbreaker.
I right-click the image in my LrC catalog, select "Edit in Photoshop", and once Photoshop opens, I go to Filter → Camera Raw Filter → Remove Distractions… and it’s greyed out. (Why is everything always greyed out when I need it most?)
By @David ART
That was never going to work, because Lightroom Classic “Edit In” has never resulted in a raw image in Photoshop. It has always resulted in a Photoshop document converted from raw, so it is no longer raw. Because it’s no longer raw, that Photoshop document can’t work with any feature requiring raw data.
If you want to test a workflow that opens a Lightroom Classic image into Photoshop while preserving its full original raw data for Camera Raw, one correct way is:
1. In Lightroom Classic, select the photo and choose Photo > Edit In > Edit as Smart Object in Photoshop. This preserves the original raw data as a raw smart object in a new Photoshop document.
2. Open it in Camera Raw by double-clicking the raw Smart Object layer. This is a shortcut for the command Layer > Smart Objects > Edit Contents.
Your workaround is another valid way: Open the raw image straight into Photoshop so that the original raw data is available to the full Camera Raw processor, before being converted out of raw into a Photoshop document.
Important: Do not choose the command Filter > Camera Raw Filter. The filter version of Camera Raw has always been a cut-down version that leaves out several features, because the filter version only operates on a Photoshop layer, not a whole file. The filter version of Camera Raw has never been able to operate on raw data directly, so features requiring raw data have never been available in Camera Raw Filter. You must use the full Camera Raw processor.
These workflow requirements aren’t new. They already applied to other Camera Raw features that require raw, such as Denoise. Also, these points have been covered earlier in this thread, so you might want to review it. For example, you’re not alone…many others have posted about wanting it to work on eyeglasses (and many of them also did not notice that Adobe already said they’d like to make reflection removal work on eyeglasses, but it’s not supposed to work on those yet. Also, many others are also not aware that Camera Raw Filter is not the full Camera Raw processor and never directly edits original raw data).
Sous Mac OS Sequoia 15.2 carte graphique Radeon Pro 580X 8 Go, pour moi, la suppréssion des reflets ça ne fonctionne pas. J'attends avec impatience que Adobe corrige cette erreur..
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