I tried it out on a picture from a few years back that had a very bad lens flare. I had tried unsuccessfully to rescue it using a combination of masking and other tools, including generative fill. I had given it up as a lost cause. The reflection removal tool fixed it PERFECTLY in one click. All I can say is, 'Wow.'
My tolerance for lost-cause images has gone up many-fold from 5 years ago. Barely missed focus for example. Back then, following online advice, I deleted images that were considered unfixable. Now if there's just a moderate flaw that can't be fixed yet, but I like something about the image, I sort it into a can't-fix-yet folder. I really regret following the aggressive deletion policy recommended in the past.
Wow Wow Wow! I'm in my mid 70's and my wife and I frequently tour in a bus through some stunning scenery. After my last trip through the Canadian Maritime provinces in October, I'd given up on taking photos out the bus window. This changes everything!
I tried the tool with several photos, in two photos with obvious reflections in the EDGE Observatory in New York it did absolutely nothing, I'm sure it will have an improvement. In the photos that worked the result is extraordinary.
Wow, I've been waiting for this 2016. I was on my home to Australia travelling on the Zephyr train from Chicago to San Francisco when I took zillions of photos through the windows of the observation car through Colorado and Utah mainly and finished up with a few with reflections I'm so glad I caught this with you, I'm predominantly a LRC user and venture into PS2025 occasionally. I'd like to see this tool end up in Remove Distractions. It's stunning.
If you're a street photographer this is a great tool. There's been many times I passed on taking a reflection shot in a window because I didn't think I was getting enough reflection of someone walking by and was getting too much of what was on the other side of the window. I'm going to give this a try on some of my previous photos and see if I can improve them.
I had a photo of a thatched roofed hut in Scotland. I discovered later that there was a rain drop on the lens at the time. It made a large blob on the photo on the roof of the hut. I thought maybe this feature will think it is a reflection and treat it this way. It worked beautifully. The rain drop was perfectly removed with one click.
Holly Molly. That's amazing. I wish Adobe put so much effort to improve the regular PS tools too, not only AI stuff which they are clearly obsessed with.
Amazing, the first thing that occurred to me is that it would be nice to have a video of this transition. I don't know what for but I was just imagining things.
I was eager for this ever since MAX Sneaks in 2023. I hope at some point they also let us use the removed reflection if we want to. Which was also demo'd in that Sneak.
That's so funny that you are talking about reflection removal and at the same time I am seeing a reflection on your glasses. It will be a great tool for portrait photographers who are taking outdoor portraits of people who wear glasses.
Fantastic! If only I had been aware of this last week when I put together a photo album of my latest trip where I took a number of images through glass. Oh well - I know now. Thank you for sharing.
When I open an image from LrCC to Ps, have it be raw or smart object, it converts the file to a tiff, a format that can't be used to use this reflection process. Kinda stuck.
A device I carry called "LenSkirt" I carry in a pocket in the rear of bag for those out the hotel or building window, the only problem even being the XL you have to use a longer lens due to the LenSkirt being in the way! I use on bus tours also. NOW no real worries capturing out a window like a tour train ride through mountains or just a cross country. But the LenSkirt has suction cups also for the window and it is real nice, just saying!!!
I love it… now let’s get this into Desktop LR and Mobile. I have been playing with it in PS for a few days now, from previous shoots at museums and other venues where reflections abound. Another dream filter would be one that would remove heat haze, distortion from an a image. I shoot a lot of aviation, airshows and the like with some serious teles. One of the big downfalls of this combo of long glass and a distant aircraft rotating off a runway is distortion and living in a warm climate (Texas) only compounds the problem. Hopefully something like this is in the pipeline at Adobe, perhaps you could drop a hint…
That's a very interesting tool for sure. Very much like magic. Now I'm going through my hard drives to find something to try it on (but I try to avoid reflections myself as well). My question is, does it reduce the resolution or create weird textures in the background like GenAI sometimes does? Thank you for alerting me to this very interesting feature. I'll keep looking for a rescue photo. Cheers.
I keep getting “delete reflections is currently not compatible with the format of this photo”. However, I am working with raw files (CR Canon). What could be the reason for this?
Oh No! Instant regret over all the hockey pics I deleted do to reflections. Wish I had those back now. The tool does work. Nikon NEF files have to be converted to DNG first.
For what ever it is worth, I usually don’t comment on videos like this, but I just couldn’t watch the whole video because it took way too long to get to the point. This is not a critique, just info to the creator if he’s wondering why some viewers are dropping out during the video.
Wow.. I've deleted countless photos because of reflections. I even bought two large different size silicone hoods to fit different lenses. They're cumbersome to use as they just stretch around the end of the lens. They fall off. I've torn one because they're a pain to fit properly. I originally bought a real cheapo one. Stiff as a board and it actually pulled the focus ring off one of my lenses, fortunately it clipped back on, but it could have wrecked the lens.
Interesting. I take pictures of toys, and they are often behind glass display cases, and I cannot choose not to make the photo. Using a polarizing filter helps some, but its cumbersome to use. That -100 setting. Was that a detective tool previewed in the movie "Blade Runner" years ago?
Only works for certain types of reflections that aren't very strong. I've found that if the reflection is very strong it thinks it's part of the image and doesn't remove it. So, not quite as great as you make out
You know what pictures most often have reflections in them? JPEG/HEIC photos taken with a phone (like in a hotel room, on a plane, etc.). Since Photoshop's reflection removal doesn't work on JPEG files, it's honestly not as useful as I would have hoped. 🤷♂
It’s frustrating that they put these things into ACR but not into Lightroom Classic when they run on the same engine. Most people use classic. This is now the denoise slider and this reflection tool stuck in camera raw for months like the curves mask was
Reflection removal is kind of a bad name on this. On 90% of the photos out there It just enhances the reflection. Seems like the only time it doesn't is if the reflection is covering the entire frame of the shot. If there's a little bit of something in the background It tends to Make the reflection more noticeable. Also you have to open the image in camera raw directly so it doesn't work well with an integration with Lightroom. For example you can't go from Lightroom and right click and edit and Photoshop. If you try this and then go up to the camera filter it says the raw format is not supported. A really good use case of this technology if it actually worked would be reflections on cars for automotive shooters.
Unfortunately this didn't work for me. Maybe try some images of your own. I tried to get reflections out of a digital advertising screen. Made no difference at all. Had my hopes up 😢😢 Thanks for the video though
So far I have been testing this and the examples you showed work great but for me the reflections in my photos are more complicated and it does not get all the reflections out. If I have something shot straight on works like your examples but off at al angel or I did a night shot through my window it could not remove the lights in the background of the widow.
I don’t use PS so will wait for LR version. But I would rarely think of shooting something behind glass unless I want the reflection as a composite image. Not sure of utility of this feature but cool that they figured out how to do it. Maybe it could be helpful once in a blue moon. Thank for the update.
I can just see it now, once its made to work with jpgs eveyone will be trying it on photos from the internet of people with sunglasses to see who took the photo, whats in the scene behind the camera and all kinds of such scenerios.
I truly do appreciate all that Adobe does to help make editing easier. I love all the new removal tools. But it does make me wonder then why some seemingly minor improvements (like customized colour labels and smart collections) have not yet appeared in these versions of Lightroom. Adobe has had a long standing practice of retaining legacy tools while also introducing new ones in their new releases. I would be a much bigger all-in fan if all of the legacy organizational elements that I rely on do get ported over from Lightroom Classic alongside these "speechless" improvements. Take a couple weeks/couple of staff, get it done and then move on to these enhancements. Just sayin'.
A great tool and very useful. However I could not get it to work when I opened an image in Lightroom Classic and chose to edit in Photoshop via a right click. But when I opened the image from Photoshop it works !! Also I struggled with some eyeglass reflections
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I tried it out on a picture from a few years back that had a very bad lens flare. I had tried unsuccessfully to rescue it using a combination of masking and other tools, including generative fill. I had given it up as a lost cause. The reflection removal tool fixed it PERFECTLY in one click. All I can say is, 'Wow.'
My tolerance for lost-cause images has gone up many-fold from 5 years ago. Barely missed focus for example. Back then, following online advice, I deleted images that were considered unfixable. Now if there's just a moderate flaw that can't be fixed yet, but I like something about the image, I sort it into a can't-fix-yet folder. I really regret following the aggressive deletion policy recommended in the past.
Wow Wow Wow! I'm in my mid 70's and my wife and I frequently tour in a bus through some stunning scenery. After my last trip through the Canadian Maritime provinces in October, I'd given up on taking photos out the bus window. This changes everything!
Finally, you can photograph objects in museum displays.
I tried the tool with several photos, in two photos with obvious reflections in the EDGE Observatory in New York it did absolutely nothing, I'm sure it will have an improvement. In the photos that worked the result is extraordinary.
I am blown away. I too almost always skip shots with bad reflections. Now I won’t. Thank you adobe and AI
I LOVE ADOBE ENGINEERS SOOOO MUCH. Thank you Brian for blowing my mind. AGAIN.
Stunning! Thank you for the video - have a great Christmas!
Amazing, thank you!
You were not joking, it's just amazing.
Wow, I've been waiting for this 2016. I was on my home to Australia travelling on the Zephyr train from Chicago to San Francisco when I took zillions of photos through the windows of the observation car through Colorado and Utah mainly and finished up with a few with reflections
I'm so glad I caught this with you, I'm predominantly a LRC user and venture into PS2025 occasionally.
I'd like to see this tool end up in Remove Distractions. It's stunning.
This feature is fantastic.
I know I’ll use it for my museums photos. I usually take photos of stuff in museums. 🙏
If you're a street photographer this is a great tool. There's been many times I passed on taking a reflection shot in a window because I didn't think I was getting enough reflection of someone walking by and was getting too much of what was on the other side of the window. I'm going to give this a try on some of my previous photos and see if I can improve them.
I had a photo of a thatched roofed hut in Scotland. I discovered later that there was a rain drop on the lens at the time. It made a large blob on the photo on the roof of the hut.
I thought maybe this feature will think it is a reflection and treat it this way. It worked beautifully. The rain drop was perfectly removed with one click.
Thanks Brian. You are correct. This is amazing.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with eyeglasses.
Holly Molly. That's amazing. I wish Adobe put so much effort to improve the regular PS tools too, not only AI stuff which they are clearly obsessed with.
Amazing, the first thing that occurred to me is that it would be nice to have a video of this transition. I don't know what for but I was just imagining things.
I was eager for this ever since MAX Sneaks in 2023. I hope at some point they also let us use the removed reflection if we want to. Which was also demo'd in that Sneak.
absolutely amazing, I have quite a few photo's from a plane window in Alaska that I will address ASAP.....
This option could be very interesting if you want to work on double exposure photos merging 2 raw photos together. Thanks for the video !!
That's so funny that you are talking about reflection removal and at the same time I am seeing a reflection on your glasses. It will be a great tool for portrait photographers who are taking outdoor portraits of people who wear glasses.
I totally noticed that too while I was editing this video!😂
Fantastic! If only I had been aware of this last week when I put together a photo album of my latest trip where I took a number of images through glass. Oh well - I know now. Thank you for sharing.
awesome update
The odd thing I found...if I try to send it right to PS from LR the filter does not work. I have to open the image in PS and then it works.
When I open an image from LrCC to Ps, have it be raw or smart object, it converts the file to a tiff, a format that can't be used to use this reflection process. Kinda stuck.
Yep, it will probably get added to LR later when refined.
How does it work with landscape images? Comparing a circular polarized image to one that isn't with this filter would be neat to see.
Outstanding
I'm sure Adobe pays its developers well - and I have no problem with that. Thanks, Brian!
A device I carry called "LenSkirt" I carry in a pocket in the rear of bag for those out the hotel or building window, the only problem even being the XL you have to use a longer lens due to the LenSkirt being in the way! I use on bus tours also. NOW no real worries capturing out a window like a tour train ride through mountains or just a cross country. But the LenSkirt has suction cups also for the window and it is real nice, just saying!!!
Excellent
Jeez! If I knew about it I could take the photo in Tokyo in all observatory deck with all window reflections as you I didn't do due to reflections
Right?! Same with me at the top of the World Trade Center.
I love it… now let’s get this into Desktop LR and Mobile. I have been playing with it in PS for a few days now, from previous shoots at museums and other venues where reflections abound.
Another dream filter would be one that would remove heat haze, distortion from an a image. I shoot a lot of aviation, airshows and the like with some serious teles. One of the big downfalls of this combo of long glass and a distant aircraft rotating off a runway is distortion and living in a warm climate (Texas) only compounds the problem. Hopefully something like this is in the pipeline at Adobe, perhaps you could drop a hint…
Astonishing 😮
THIS is best to end 2024 and welcome 2025....awesome. thanks for sharing. Clearly all the competitors are....not relevant anymore now. Thx Adobe
That's a very interesting tool for sure. Very much like magic. Now I'm going through my hard drives to find something to try it on (but I try to avoid reflections myself as well). My question is, does it reduce the resolution or create weird textures in the background like GenAI sometimes does? Thank you for alerting me to this very interesting feature. I'll keep looking for a rescue photo. Cheers.
5:00 to see it in action
Great video. Thanks. Would have been nice to see water shot. Does this mean polarizers will be unnecessary?
I keep getting “delete reflections is currently not compatible with the format of this photo”.
However, I am working with raw files (CR Canon).
What could be the reason for this?
what the resolution like?
Oh No! Instant regret over all the hockey pics I deleted do to reflections. Wish I had those back now. The tool does work. Nikon NEF files have to be converted to DNG first.
For what ever it is worth, I usually don’t comment on videos like this, but I just couldn’t watch the whole video because it took way too long to get to the point. This is not a critique, just info to the creator if he’s wondering why some viewers are dropping out during the video.
Does it also eliminate reflections in glasses?
Wow.. I've deleted countless photos because of reflections. I even bought two large different size silicone hoods to fit different lenses. They're cumbersome to use as they just stretch around the end of the lens. They fall off. I've torn one because they're a pain to fit properly. I originally bought a real cheapo one. Stiff as a board and it actually pulled the focus ring off one of my lenses, fortunately it clipped back on, but it could have wrecked the lens.
Wow! Will this also work on reflections on peoples glasses, or does the AI look for reflections that sort of "cover the whole area of the photo"?
I'd like to see that. Evoto has a pretty good solution, so technically it's solved by 3rd party but not with Adobe.
It will be very good that in lightroom mobile too
Interesting. I take pictures of toys, and they are often behind glass display cases, and I cannot choose not to make the photo. Using a polarizing filter helps some, but its cumbersome to use. That -100 setting. Was that a detective tool previewed in the movie "Blade Runner" years ago?
Wonder how it works with water reflection?
Only works for certain types of reflections that aren't very strong. I've found that if the reflection is very strong it thinks it's part of the image and doesn't remove it. So, not quite as great as you make out
WOW!! 🎉🎉🎉
You know what pictures most often have reflections in them? JPEG/HEIC photos taken with a phone (like in a hotel room, on a plane, etc.).
Since Photoshop's reflection removal doesn't work on JPEG files, it's honestly not as useful as I would have hoped. 🤷♂
That the reflection removal tool works only on RAW files, is the iPhone capable of capturing RAW images?
Yup, if you enable the option in the camera settings.
can you make a selection of a window in PS and just remove the reflection in that. As a real estate photog, that would be helpful
I haven't been able to
Is this the end of the polariser?
oh wow, very true!
I swear the photoshop devs are wizards.
Adobe?? NO THANKS!!!
It’s frustrating that they put these things into ACR but not into Lightroom Classic when they run on the same engine. Most people use classic. This is now the denoise slider and this reflection tool stuck in camera raw for months like the curves mask was
Sure wish we could use this for eyeglasses.
Impressive. Circular polarizer market BTFO?
Reflection removal is kind of a bad name on this. On 90% of the photos out there It just enhances the reflection. Seems like the only time it doesn't is if the reflection is covering the entire frame of the shot. If there's a little bit of something in the background It tends to Make the reflection more noticeable. Also you have to open the image in camera raw directly so it doesn't work well with an integration with Lightroom. For example you can't go from Lightroom and right click and edit and Photoshop. If you try this and then go up to the camera filter it says the raw format is not supported. A really good use case of this technology if it actually worked would be reflections on cars for automotive shooters.
I can see a lot of embarrassing selfies making their way into the future.
And the best part: they’ve already been taken.
Unfortunately this didn't work for me.
Maybe try some images of your own.
I tried to get reflections out of a digital advertising screen.
Made no difference at all. Had my hopes up 😢😢
Thanks for the video though
I am waiting for a feature that will add vampire reflections to mirrors.
Saul Leiter would not have liked this feature, 🤓
Ha! I think you might be right. 😁
Doesn't work with fresh Lumix RW2 files. RW2 files are not considered as RAW files it seems.
It isn’t compatible with my dng photos!
It does not work in Switzerland due to geographical limitations.
I am speechless that Adobe will increase the subscription fee for the photography package 5 more usd
H.S.! 😮
Brain, you could use a polarizer to reduce reflaxions ;-) LOL (just kidding)
Doesn't work in windows version. It just generates a pattern of repeating rectangles. 😒
No more telling people to remove their glasses?
So far I have been testing this and the examples you showed work great but for me the reflections in my photos are more complicated and it does not get all the reflections out. If I have something shot straight on works like your examples but off at al angel or I did a night shot through my window it could not remove the lights in the background of the widow.
I don’t use PS so will wait for LR version. But I would rarely think of shooting something behind glass unless I want the reflection as a composite image. Not sure of utility of this feature but cool that they figured out how to do it. Maybe it could be helpful once in a blue moon. Thank for the update.
I can just see it now, once its made to work with jpgs eveyone will be trying it on photos from the internet of people with sunglasses to see who took the photo, whats in the scene behind the camera and all kinds of such scenerios.
I truly do appreciate all that Adobe does to help make editing easier. I love all the new removal tools. But it does make me wonder then why some seemingly minor improvements (like customized colour labels and smart collections) have not yet appeared in these versions of Lightroom. Adobe has had a long standing practice of retaining legacy tools while also introducing new ones in their new releases. I would be a much bigger all-in fan if all of the legacy organizational elements that I rely on do get ported over from Lightroom Classic alongside these "speechless" improvements. Take a couple weeks/couple of staff, get it done and then move on to these enhancements. Just sayin'.
Smart Albums have been in Lightroom Desktop since the October release of v8.0. I even shared a video explaining how it works. Just sayin’.
@ Smart Albums are not quite the same as Smart Collections but I get your point.
Can you explain how they’re different?
A great tool and very useful. However I could not get it to work when I opened an image in Lightroom Classic and chose to edit in Photoshop via a right click. But when I opened the image from Photoshop it works !! Also I struggled with some eyeglass reflections