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!
Wow! This is such an incredible tool-I’m genuinely impressed! I can already see so many ways it’s going to make my projects easier and more efficient. I’m going to pour through my catalog right away and start using the reflection removal tool. I can’t wait to dive in and see the results!
@@pbm___000It wasn't sarcasm at all, it's just common sense. The filter only works with "raw" images so if you can take raw images (for example with a mirrorless) you can learn to use a polarizing filter instead of compromising your photos with AI. is it clearer now?
@@pakorizzuti81 Why do you say filter only works on "raw"? Lightroom can process lossy jpgs too. Either way it came across to me like you were scolding/bashing them for not doing it "the right way" and to use a polarizer to prevent the problem -- which misses the point that sometimes you don't always have the best gear on hand -- and in those times this type of filter might fix the photo.
it caught me off guard how good it is. for the first try, without much effort, it seemed to know *exactly what needed to be dealt with. and then the slider just lets you dial in how much 'reality' you want to bring back into it, pretty incredible!
Mind blowing! I missed this because I generally work in Lightroom. I'm sure I have some images that will be worth cleaning up with this. Thanks for a great video.
OMG!! I usually take these new features in stride because (a) they're expected, and (b) they're often incremental or 'first drafts' of an idea in some engineer's mind. But this!!! This is revolutionary and far beyond what we expect to see in PS Technology Previews. 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.
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 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 agree. I tried it on a photo with reflections on the eyeglasses. It did NOTHING on the eyeglasses. Only, it changed the subjects white buttons on his shirt, dark grey. Yep, that was helpful!
@@317Media_Indy With AI it's always a hit and miss, but when it does not work one can simply not use it and work the heck as normal. When it works is can cut one hour of work
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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?
Excited to try this tool but when I try it on iPhone DNGs I get an exclamation mark saying the tool is not compatible with this format - although I believe its the same format as the images demonstrated in the video.
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?
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.
Does it work if the photo has a woman in it? Most of the cloud-based AI tools of Adobe's fail to work on photos of women because it assumes that you are trying to do something illicit even though you're trying to just remove a electrical outlet from the background of a Christmas photo.
So interesting. I selected "Edit in Photoshop as a smart object" from Lightroom, but editing the smart object revealed it is a TIFF instead of a DNG. I had to export the image as Original from Lightroom first as a proper DNG and then open in camera raw to be able to use this. Is there a place in Lightroom to edit the format used when selecting "Edit in Photoshop as a smart object"? Seems like a bug.
Love your vids brother As a sound engineer, your vocal fry frequencies can be pulled down a bit. The gravelly sound of saliva at the back of the throat in the vibrating vocal folds makes a lot of people, subconsciously skip vids. The more breathy and airy sound is more easy to listen to. Just pulling down certain frequencies or running through a audio software to pull down those crispy and crunchy high frequencies will help. Love your work.
Just tried it. Although it removed some reflections it wasn’t 100% by any means. I took a photo of a glass-fronted bookcase and the reflections at about 45 degrees were removed, but the ones face-on remained.
I have thrown about 20 images at it from RE situations featuring window reflections of varying strength - zero success so far. It really seems to want the entire image to be a reflection.
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
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with dng images generated by Lightroom, or Fuji RAF images. I get the checkbox, but there's a warning icon that takes me to a page that says it only works on RAW image formats, like DNG.
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
When I tried to fix a Nikon NEF file I get the error that it is an incompatible format. I then used Adobe converter to a DNG file, that format was accepted, but the fix was very little and most reflection not removed.
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.
I tried to do this using an image taken with my EOS-RP (CR3 RAW). I get a message saying that this format is not supported. How can I get this to work?
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. 🤷♂
I tried to use it but it won't support .DNG files which is a raw file format. Is there anything I can do to fix that? Was very excited to try this after watching this video.
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.
Ich kann es gut verstehen wo dieses Entspiegeln angebracht wäre, aber wenn ich Schaufenster mit Spiegelung habe möchte und genau beobachte wie es wirkt, möchte ich auf keinen Fall die Spiegelung wieder heraus haben❤.
I just tried this and ran into a problem. I opened a raw file from my photos app. It was taken with my Canon camera and was in Canon’s raw cr3 format. In the photos app, I selected “edit with” photoshop 2025. I made sure that I was using version 26.1 and camera raw 17.1. For some reason, photoshop opened the file as a jpeg, so, as you indicated, reflections removal doesn’t work. I tried it with several photos with the same result.
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.
That’s awesome!
Thanks!
Thank you, Bob!
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!
das mag ja die richtige verwendung sein
Wow! This is such an incredible tool-I’m genuinely impressed! I can already see so many ways it’s going to make my projects easier and more efficient. I’m going to pour through my catalog right away and start using the reflection removal tool. I can’t wait to dive in and see the results!
Unbelievable! Thank you so much Brian for sharing the new feature in the ACR! Good luck and please keep creating!
Finally, you can photograph objects in museum displays.
Or use a real lens and a polarizing filter.
Will help with photos of toy previews at conventions.
@@pakorizzuti81 snark always improves the internet... right? oh, and see what I mean? 🙄
@@pbm___000It wasn't sarcasm at all, it's just common sense. The filter only works with "raw" images so if you can take raw images (for example with a mirrorless) you can learn to use a polarizing filter instead of compromising your photos with AI. is it clearer now?
@@pakorizzuti81 Why do you say filter only works on "raw"? Lightroom can process lossy jpgs too. Either way it came across to me like you were scolding/bashing them for not doing it "the right way" and to use a polarizer to prevent the problem -- which misses the point that sometimes you don't always have the best gear on hand -- and in those times this type of filter might fix the photo.
I am blown away. I too almost always skip shots with bad reflections. Now I won’t. Thank you adobe and AI
it caught me off guard how good it is. for the first try, without much effort, it seemed to know *exactly what needed to be dealt with. and then the slider just lets you dial in how much 'reality' you want to bring back into it, pretty incredible!
Amazing! Kudos to Adobe, and thanks to you BM for explaining things so well.
This feature is fantastic.
I know I’ll use it for my museums photos. I usually take photos of stuff in museums. 🙏
This is amazing! This is such a smart use-case for AI with image editing
Amazing, thank you!
Excellent post, thanks for sharing this to us.
I LOVE ADOBE ENGINEERS SOOOO MUCH. Thank you Brian for blowing my mind. AGAIN.
Mind blowing! I missed this because I generally work in Lightroom. I'm sure I have some images that will be worth cleaning up with this. Thanks for a great video.
Gonna go out and take a heap of pics WITH reflections just to try this out and see what it can do, amazing. Thanks Brian.
Stunning! Thank you for the video - have a great Christmas!
OMG!! I usually take these new features in stride because (a) they're expected, and (b) they're often incremental or 'first drafts' of an idea in some engineer's mind. But this!!! This is revolutionary and far beyond what we expect to see in PS Technology Previews. 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.
It's just mind blowing!
Thanks Brian. You are correct. This is amazing.
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 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 agree. I tried it on a photo with reflections on the eyeglasses. It did NOTHING on the eyeglasses. Only, it changed the subjects white buttons on his shirt, dark grey. Yep, that was helpful!
@@317Media_Indy With AI it's always a hit and miss, but when it does not work one can simply not use it and work the heck as normal. When it works is can cut one hour of work
You were not joking, it's just amazing.
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.
looking forward to test it on older fotos with - reflections on glasses
absolutely amazing, I have quite a few photo's from a plane window in Alaska that I will address ASAP.....
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.
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!😂
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.
This is truly amazing! I am so impressed! I wonder if this tool can, in some ways, replace polarizer filters?
This option could be very interesting if you want to work on double exposure photos merging 2 raw photos together. Thanks for the video !!
Negative 100 is wild! Who would have even thought of such a feature?!
awesome update
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.
Nice video!!
Thanks. So Kool!
6:10 O.M.G that is amazing!!
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with eyeglasses.
It can work! Just make a duplicate layer and zoom in on the glasses and mask it out after to remove the reflections.
Absolutely superb. Will it ever work with jpeg, tiff, etc though? 🤔
As Brian said, 'no, not at this time'.
@bruceatkinson932 Yes, and I doubt they ever will.
I don’t have words either! Wow. Is this feature only available in camera raw mode?
Blown away.
Damn that is awesome
Great video. Thanks. Would have been nice to see water shot. Does this mean polarizers will be unnecessary?
Outstanding
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.
Given that window reflections are similar in light quality to lens flare, I think you'll find "remove reflections" also reduces lens flare.
Excellent
Oh, cool - i think i must take some Photos to test :-)
Astonishing 😮
I often shoot images for authors and editors in small museums. They are reflection hell. This tools will save me hours.
So will this come to lightroom cloud
Does the picture need to be in raw format for this feature to work?
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?
This is definitely a double wow! I wonder how it would do with reflection off eyeglasses? Maybe mask the eyeglasses first?
Excited to try this tool but when I try it on iPhone DNGs I get an exclamation mark saying the tool is not compatible with this format - although I believe its the same format as the images demonstrated in the video.
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?
I am having the same issue with Sony raw files .arw and the same problem convertimg .arw to .dng
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.
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.
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.
If you’re moving from Lightroom desktop to PS it’s not working because it’s converted to tiff. Try moving as Smart Object
@@bruceatkinson932 it's still a tiff that way too
NEED: shared personal presets between desktop and cloud
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…
Never again will I have to work around glasses in portraits! HUGE W
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.
Does it work if the photo has a woman in it? Most of the cloud-based AI tools of Adobe's fail to work on photos of women because it assumes that you are trying to do something illicit even though you're trying to just remove a electrical outlet from the background of a Christmas photo.
Only in raw files? Damn...
Does it also eliminate reflections in glasses?
I'm sure Adobe pays its developers well - and I have no problem with that. Thanks, Brian!
Wow!
Do you think this feature will eventually make it to LR?
I know it will. Adobe states it in their blog post about Reflection Removal. I also mention it in the intro of this video.
So interesting. I selected "Edit in Photoshop as a smart object" from Lightroom, but editing the smart object revealed it is a TIFF instead of a DNG. I had to export the image as Original from Lightroom first as a proper DNG and then open in camera raw to be able to use this. Is there a place in Lightroom to edit the format used when selecting "Edit in Photoshop as a smart object"? Seems like a bug.
Wonder how it works with water reflection?
Love your vids brother
As a sound engineer, your vocal fry frequencies can be pulled down a bit.
The gravelly sound of saliva at the back of the throat in the vibrating vocal folds makes a lot of people, subconsciously skip vids.
The more breathy and airy sound is more easy to listen to.
Just pulling down certain frequencies or running through a audio software to pull down those crispy and crunchy high frequencies will help.
Love your work.
what the resolution like?
Just tried it. Although it removed some reflections it wasn’t 100% by any means. I took a photo of a glass-fronted bookcase and the reflections at about 45 degrees were removed, but the ones face-on remained.
5:00 to see it in action
Did all of the above with a recent NEF file from my Nikon Z8, but the remove reflection feature is greyed out.
It will be very good that in lightroom mobile too
What if you want to remove s reflection on an area of the photo. Ex a person’s glasses or a reflective object such as a Christmas ornament?
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
I have thrown about 20 images at it from RE situations featuring window reflections of varying strength - zero success so far. It really seems to want the entire image to be a reflection.
Só falta ser compativel com jpg né ? Só aceita RAW
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.
@@gaudenzwaldvogel9518 thanks for the tip!
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
Works fine when i open dng file in photoshop, but when i sent the same file from lightroom - photoshop says that format is not supported :(
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with dng images generated by Lightroom, or Fuji RAF images. I get the checkbox, but there's a warning icon that takes me to a page that says it only works on RAW image formats, like DNG.
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!! 🎉🎉🎉
When I tried to fix a Nikon NEF file I get the error that it is an incompatible format. I then used Adobe converter to a DNG file, that format was accepted, but the fix was very little and most reflection not removed.
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.
I tried to do this using an image taken with my EOS-RP (CR3 RAW). I get a message saying that this format is not supported. How can I get this to work?
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. 🤷♂
I'm sure there's a workflow to help portrait photographers remove reflections from their sitters' glasses.
Is this the end of the polariser?
oh wow, very true!
Using the newest version. Function shows but it won’t work with Canon .CR3 raw files
I tried to use it but it won't support .DNG files which is a raw file format. Is there anything I can do to fix that? Was very excited to try this after watching this video.
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.
I swear the photoshop devs are wizards.
Ich kann es gut verstehen wo dieses Entspiegeln angebracht wäre, aber wenn ich Schaufenster mit Spiegelung habe möchte und genau beobachte wie es wirkt, möchte ich auf keinen Fall die Spiegelung wieder heraus haben❤.
I just tried this and ran into a problem. I opened a raw file from my photos app. It was taken with my Canon camera and was in Canon’s raw cr3 format. In the photos app, I selected “edit with” photoshop 2025. I made sure that I was using version 26.1 and camera raw 17.1. For some reason, photoshop opened the file as a jpeg, so, as you indicated, reflections removal doesn’t work. I tried it with several photos with the same result.