Photoshop's New AI Tool Makes It Easy to Remove Window Glare

While there are many ways to create and edit images with AI, removing unwanted elements is its most useful application. AI saves you a lot of time and allows those who have difficulty editing images to perform advanced techniques with very little intervention. Now, Adobe has revealed a new AI tool that can remove annoying reflections from your photos.

Adobe Camera Raw gets new reflection removal tool

As announced on the Adobe Blog, Camera Raw will get a new AI-powered tool to remove reflections from your photos. If you've taken a photo of something through a window and want to remove any reflections that are ruining your photo, you can use this tool to automatically remove the unwanted parts, leaving your subject in the photo clear and pristine.

Adobe breaks down how the technology works in its blog, and it's pretty fascinating. The AI ​​engine is trained to recognize an image with a reflection as two separate images: the subject in the photo and the scene reflected on the glass. By separating the two images, the AI ​​can create what the original subject looks like without the reflection, and what the scene looks like with the reflection.

It works so well that Adobe is thinking about creating more such erasers:

We also wanted to expand our tools to remove dust, scratches, rain, snow, or other things that stick to windows (bugs on the windshield, for example).

To use this tool, open your raw image in an Adobe photo editing app like Photoshop, then enable the Camera Raw extension. If this is your first time hearing about this tool, check out How to Use Camera Raw to learn how to use it.

Go to the Technology Previews section in Preferences , enable the New AI Settings and Features panel , then restart the app. Import the photo, go to the Remove panel , go to the Distraction Removal section , and check the box labeled "Reflections" . The tool will now remove reflections from your photo.

David Pac

Update 14 December 2024