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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.
This reply, earlier in this thread, explains why:
Also, it isn’t called “glare reduction.”
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First as others have noted, the RAW file has to be dropped into PS directly, not through LR or it doesn't register as a Raw file.
By @grjas2
This needs to be clarified because technically, it’s working as expected, even though it‘s confusing for a lot of people (Adobe could label the workflow better). And, this applies to any feature that requires raw format, including the Technology Previews reflection removal or non-destructive Enhance:
The raw file is never kept as raw when you use Edit In > Adobe Photoshop. Lightroom Classic does the rendering and sends it to Photoshop, which accepts that rendered (not raw) input. This is how Edit In > Adobe Photoshop has always worked. But because it is no longer raw, the raw-only features are not available in Camera Raw Filter.
To get it to work as raw, it is not required to drop or open the raw file into Photoshop directly (see next paragraph), however, the reason that works is that it’s still raw, so Photoshop can’t open it without something rendering it first and so it calls on the Camera Raw import plug-in (not filter).
It is possible to fully preserve raw data from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop. To do that, instead use the command Photo > Edit In > Open as Smart Object in Photoshop. That encapsulates the raw data in a Photoshop Smart Object layer in Photoshop, and because the raw data is fully preserved, Camera Raw will then present all features that apply to raw files, including reflection removal.
Also important is how to edit a raw Smart Object layer. If you have a raw Smart Object layer in Photoshop, the right way to edit it is by double-clicking, which is a shortcut for the command Layer > Smart Objects > Edit Contents. All raw-only features including reflection removal will work. If you instead choose Filter > Camera Raw Filter, that is not the same thing, you are not editing the contents and you will not see any raw-specific features no matter what you do. So this difference in workflow is very important (and again, should be made clearer by Adobe because lots of people are tripping over this and they shouldn’t have to.)
In short, if you start from Lightroom Classic and you want to send a raw file to Photoshop to use the raw-only Camera Raw technology preview features:
1. From Lightroom Classic, in the Develop module choose Photo > Edit In > Open as Smart Object in Photoshop.
2. In the Photoshop document that is created, double-click that raw Smart Object layer.
I was so excited to use this and here are the steps I followed. Opened an image in Lightroom Classic. Converted to DNG, close LRC and the opened the file in Photoshop and then CMD+SHIFT+A for camera raw and it's constantly disabled. See the screenshot below. I've tried everything and all versions of the software are up to date. What am I doing wrong?
I was so excited to use this and here are the steps I followed. Opened an image in Lightroom Classic. Converted to DNG, close LRC and the opened the file in Photoshop and then CMD+SHIFT+A for camera raw and it's constantly disabled.
By @louise__s
It’s because of what I posted earlier: The image must stay raw all the way into Photoshop, as a raw Smart Object layer, and it has to be opened into Camera Raw through Edit Contents, not through Camera Raw Filter (Command-Shift+A is the shortcut for Filter > Camera Raw Filter, which again, will never, ever work for any features requiring a raw source).
Again, if you want to start from Lightroom Classic, the steps that should work are:
1. Before you begin, make sure that in Camera Raw Preferences / Technology Previews, the option New AI Features and Settings Panel is enabled.
2. From Lightroom Classic, in the Develop module choose Photo > Edit In > Open as Smart Object in Photoshop.
3. In the new Photoshop document that’s created, double-click that raw Smart Object layer (or select that layer and choose Layer > Smart Objects > Edit Contents).
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