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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
7.
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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.
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Trying the reflection removsl on several recent travel photos. The glass reflections in store fronts seem to evade it's detection for some reason. However removing blue sky haze reflection from moving water shot from directly overhead worked great.
It’s not about whether an .xmp file exists. It’s about whether Camera Raw has access to the raw data, since reflection removal is currently one of the few features that requires raw. The two conditions you mentioned were explained earlier in the thread, are expected behavior and so are unlikely to change (although the behavior, explained again below, is neither ideal nor made clear to the user).
This includes any time I open a .nef from Lightroom Classic (CNTL- or Command- e)…
By @TomHackettPhotography
In this case, reflection removal doesn’t work because Lightroom Classic isn’t sending a raw file to Photoshop. That is the keyboard shortcut for the command Photo > Edit In > Adobe Photoshop. That command does not, and never has, sent a raw file to Photoshop. What it does is first render the file to RGB using the Camera Raw engine embedded in Lightroom Classic, and then sends that rendered non-raw file to Photoshop. Lightroom Classic does this because Photoshop can’t open raw files. If Lightroom Classic didn’t pre-render the file, Photoshop would have to open Camera Raw to do the conversion out of raw before accepting the file (same as when you use the Open command in Photoshop and select a raw file).
If you want to send an image from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop and keep it raw so that raw-only features work in Camera Raw, instead use the command Photo > Edit In > Open As Smart Object in Photoshop.
or when I click "Open" or "Open Object" and then try to use it from Camera Raw Filter.
By @TomHackettPhotography
In this case, the problem is because the limited Camera Raw Filter is being used, not the full Camera Raw processor. Camera Raw Filter is only able to work as a filter on rendered layer data, so it isn’t working in raw, so no raw-only features work. (Similarly, you’ll never find the Crop tool or Workflow settings in the Camera Raw Filter, because it’s not working with a full raw file, just a Photoshop layer.)
If you want your two conditions to work with raw-only features such as reflection removal or AI denoise, use these two specific steps:
1. With the raw file selected in Lightroom Classic, choose Photo > Edit In > Open As Smart Object in Photoshop. The raw file becomes a raw Smart Object layer in a Photoshop document.
2. With the raw Smart Object layer selected in Photoshop, choose Layer > Smart Objects > Edit Contents. (The shortcut for this command is, double-click the raw Smart Object layer.) This opens the raw Smart Object into full Camera Raw, so all Camera Raw features will be available: reflection removal, AI Denoise, cropping, workflow settings…
Doesnt work on Windows apparently - it states that the gpu had a non-fixable error
Not working properly - corrupted image.
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