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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Goodbye polarizing filters? New Adobe photo editing tool removes pesky reflections – here's how to use it

A before and after GIF shows a photo of a girl through a window with and without reflections.

Reflections off windows are a photography problem traditionally tackled by using circular polarizing filters, but software giant Adobe is now testing a tool to tackle the issue in post. Adobe launched a reflection removal tool in beta for Adobe Camera Raw this week, along with a new monochrome adaptive profile. Lightroom will also see an update that allows users to open multiple photos as layers in one Photoshop file, as well as enabling photos to open as Smart Objects.

Hidden at the end of an announcement over Lightroom’s title as the Mac App of the Year, Adobe teased that the improvements are coming to Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw “later this week," then launched the reflection removal tool in beta on Thursday, December 12.

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