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P: Reflection Removal feedback (CR & LrClassic)

Adobe Employee ,
Nov 05, 2024 Nov 05, 2024

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: 

  • The feature currently only works on raw photos. Support for JPEGs & HEICs is added in the April 24 Update.
  • There is a known issue on some Windows machines where the feature may produce a corrupt image. We are working on a fix for the upcoming release. 

 

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: 

  • Make sure you have the “New AI Features and Settings Panel” Technology Preview enabled in the Camera Raw plug-in Preferences dialog (requires restarting the host application to activate). 
  • Go to the Remove panel [B] , and in the “Distraction Removal” section, click on the “Reflections” checkbox. 
  • Optionally adjust the slider after the ML model is done computing. 
  • Use the rest of the Camera Raw tools just like you would otherwise. 

When using the slider, the key values to note are: 

  • 0 – the input photo
  • 100 – de-reflected (window reflections removed) photo 
  • -100 – reflection photo (what the window was reflecting towards the camera) 

 

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: 

  • Looking through windows inside-out (e.g., from the car, airplane, room windows, etc.) 
  • Looking through windows outside-in (e.g., shop windows) 
  • Museums (e.g., paintings behind glass, glass case exhibits, etc.) 

 

How best to use Reflection Removal

For best results, try the new feature following these suggestions: 

  • Apply Reflection Removal before applying any other edits to the photo, except for Enhance features such as Denoise
    • The changes made to the photo may be quite profound and render any changes you already made inappropriate.
    • If you plan to use both Enhance (Denoise, Super Resolution, or Raw Details) and Reflection Removal on a photo, it is better to apply Enhance first.
  • Play with the feature slider and adjust the removal strength as appropriate.
  • If you applied Adobe Adaptive (beta) profile prior to running the Reflection Removal feature, please update it or you may see traces of removed reflections still present in the photo (Adobe Camera Raw will remind you to do this).

 

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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New Here , May 13, 2025 May 13, 2025

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. 

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Contributor , Jun 28, 2025 Jun 28, 2025

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. 

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Community Expert , Jul 07, 2025 Jul 07, 2025

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. 

 

Adobe-remove-reflections-blog-post-eyeglasses.png

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Community Expert , Jul 07, 2025 Jul 07, 2025

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.

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Contributor , Jul 20, 2025 Jul 20, 2025

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.

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Explorer , Aug 02, 2025 Aug 02, 2025

Seems Quality is on "preview". Try setting it on "best".

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Explorer , Aug 12, 2025 Aug 12, 2025

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. 

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Explorer , Aug 14, 2025 Aug 14, 2025

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.

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Explorer , Aug 15, 2025 Aug 15, 2025

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.

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Adobe Employee , Aug 15, 2025 Aug 15, 2025

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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Adobe Employee , Aug 15, 2025 Aug 15, 2025

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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Community Beginner , Aug 15, 2025 Aug 15, 2025

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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Explorer , Aug 16, 2025 Aug 16, 2025

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.

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Community Expert , Aug 20, 2025 Aug 20, 2025

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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Community Expert , Sep 09, 2025 Sep 09, 2025

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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Explorer , Sep 15, 2025 Sep 15, 2025

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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Community Expert , Oct 05, 2025 Oct 05, 2025

This reply, earlier in this thread, explains why:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/p-reflection-removal-feedback-cr-amp-lrclassic/m-p/15405349#M28971

 

Also, it isn’t called “glare reduction.”

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Community Beginner ,
May 13, 2025 May 13, 2025

I opened a RAW-file in PS as smart object, opened it in ACR, removed the reflections and this was the result (after a long wait). Same happened with other images. Any ideas?

Scherm­afbeelding 2.jpg

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Community Beginner ,
May 13, 2025 May 13, 2025

La suppression des reflets a mis, non pas 5min mais 11min, et le résultat est toujours très mauvais.
Pourquoi Adobe n'arrive pas à résoudre ce problème.?

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Community Expert ,
May 13, 2025 May 13, 2025

Hello, est ce que c'est sur otutes photos ? De mon côté sur un Mac mini M4 pro ou un macbook pro M1 max pas de soucis de ce genre. A mon avis il y a de l'amélioration à faire mais c'est pas mal pour un début je dirais. Mais don ton cas en effet c'est très étrange.

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Community Beginner ,
May 13, 2025 May 13, 2025

Alexandre Becquet bonjour

Oui, c'est mauvais sur toutes les photos RAW et JPG

L'outil "supprimer les reflets" semble incompatible avec mon iMac

colmanc45976152_0-1747142465844.png

J'attends depuis plusieurs mois un solution d'Adobe
Bonne journée à vous Alexandre

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Community Beginner ,
May 15, 2025 May 15, 2025

Yes, well, I tried two, as it takes about ten minutes to wait for the machine to finish, and the result was very much the same. My Macbook has a memory of 64Gb, it is always fast.

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Explorer ,
May 15, 2025 May 15, 2025

Rob,
your Macbook has 64Gb internal memory. But the reflection removal tool is using the GPU, graphics card, which is 8Gb. Memory and GPU processing is faster than the CPU and the internal RAM.
I'm using a Windows PC, but with a gaming GPU with 12Gb memory. Processing of my 45MP pictures takes less than a minute. That's the problem with editing software these days, they require a lot of GPU power.

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Engaged ,
May 14, 2025 May 14, 2025

The distraction on this picture was lens flare, not glare from a window. But it's similar. Processing took about a minute on my MacBook M2 and the correction was minimal with the slider Glare removal testGlare removal testat 100% (see the top of the bridge).

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New Here ,
May 15, 2025 May 15, 2025

Same problem here.  Just a pixelated mess.

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New Here ,
May 17, 2025 May 17, 2025

Feedback about reflections removal:

With this photo for example (attached) the reflections were removed perfectly, however the whole picture became blurry, and lost the sharpness. Thank you

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Adobe Employee ,
May 17, 2025 May 17, 2025

Please try changing the quality setting to "best"

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New Here ,
May 17, 2025 May 17, 2025

Thank you very much for your reply, I just figured it out 1 minute after I sent the post.... Sorry. Works perfectly fine 🙂

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New Here ,
May 18, 2025 May 18, 2025

I tried using it on a dark photo with a reflection of a checkered tile floor. The filter made no changes to my photo regardless of the settings. What am I not doing correctly?

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Adobe Employee ,
May 20, 2025 May 20, 2025

This is an unusual looking photo, and that might be the simple reason why. If you're willing to share the original RAW, that would be helpful. We continue to work toward models that work on every single image.

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Community Beginner ,
May 20, 2025 May 20, 2025

Scherm­afbeelding 3 09.50.02.jpg

 This was the original image

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Adobe Employee ,
May 20, 2025 May 20, 2025

This does not look like the "Golden Cross 2.png" that was posted above. That said, in this photo the reflections are on windows that are part of the scene. The remove reflections tool is designed to remove reflections from windows that cover your field of view, thus blocking you from seeing your subject. It's also designed to not remove reflections that are part of the scene. In the future we plan to support removing reflections from panes of glass that are part of the scene, but the tool will not typically do that today. We do know that this is an important use case.

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New Here ,
May 19, 2025 May 19, 2025

the removal function doesn't work on eyeglasses.

i have the latest version and the reflection still remains using the function in maximum level

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Adobe Employee ,
May 20, 2025 May 20, 2025

This is known and intended. Please see the blog to learn more about reflection removal.

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New Here ,
May 20, 2025 May 20, 2025

so, if is intended, how can I remove a reflection on eyeglasses?

 

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Adobe Employee ,
May 20, 2025 May 20, 2025

Currently removing reflections from eye glasses is not officially supported. One thing you can do is convert to a non-raw format like tiff, tightly crop around the eye glasses area, apply de-reflection, and composite the result back into the original tiff. 

 

We understand that eye glasses are an important use case. We hope to support it in the future. 

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New Here ,
May 20, 2025 May 20, 2025

the image is not a raw format, is a png.

i want to show you the issue but i can't attach a photo due privacy policy.

the problem is very invalidating.

can you help me to understand how to remove a reflection without using this automatic setup?

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 25, 2025 Apr 25, 2025

PS 26.6 - Mac OS 15.4.1 - iMac 2019 5K 27" -  Camera Raw 17.3 - I have issue with Remove Reflections tool in ACR - produces colored pixilated image - both RAW and JPG images

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 25, 2025 Apr 25, 2025

Hi @Santillo! Thank you for reaching out! 

 

Could you share some more info with us? Is this happening with all JPG or RAW images, or just certain ones? Also, could you share the image you're working on with this tool, just to reproduce the issue on our end (via Google Drive, WeTransfer, or another file-sharing platform)?

 

Meanwhile, can you verify if the GPU is enabled by checking this out: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html#troubleshoot:~:text=photos%20to%20files.-,Det.... Try turning it off if it's enabled to see if it changes anything.

 

Hope this helps! Can you mention my username when you reply?

Cheers! 

Noel
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Community Beginner ,
May 19, 2025 May 19, 2025

The colored pixeled result happens with GPU ON or OFF and on RAW or JPG files....

... attached image fileIMG_2660.jpeg

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Community Beginner ,
May 19, 2025 May 19, 2025

user name SANTILLO

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Adobe Employee ,
May 19, 2025 May 19, 2025

Hi @Santillo ! Thank you for your reply ! Could you please share your system information (in Photoshop from Help > System Info) ? That would be really helpful. 

 

Meanwhile, you may try these steps below, see if it changes anything :

 

1) Try Resetting preferences in Photoshop but be cautious, as this will reset all your Photoshop settings, It is advised to make a backup of your preferences. This Helpx article would help: https://adobe.ly/3Fffo9r

 

2) Alternatively, you can try Resetting Camera Raw preferences: 

  • Hold down the Command key and select Photoshop > Preferences > Camera Raw 
  • Click Yes in the dialog that asks "Delete the Camera Raw Preferences?"

 

3) Update the Software.

    Updating the application (Photoshop and Camera Raw) and your OS may help to rectify this problem.

 

While Remove Reflection tool can be applied to other image formats, it's most effective when working with the rich data available in RAW files.

 

Let us know how it goes! Cheers!

Noel
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