Glasses Glare Removal

Glasses and cameras have a difficult relationship: a window, a ring light or a flash turns lenses into mirrors and hides the most important part of a portrait. Glasses Glare Removal clears the reflections and restores the eyes behind the lenses. The frames are kept exactly as they are — shape, color, thickness, the way they sit on the nose — and so is the rest of the face, so the result is the same photo with the eyes readable again rather than a photo of a different pair of glasses.

It handles the common cases: bright rectangular window reflections, the double halo of a ring light, the milky sheen of an overcast sky, and the blown-out patch from an on-camera flash. Partial glare, where one eye is clear and the other is not, is rebuilt from the visible eye and the face. Tinted and photochromic lenses keep their tint; only the reflection layer is removed. Works on headshots, ID-style photos and group shots alike, and preserves the aspect ratio of the original.

A Standard run costs 4 credits and finishes in seconds. Pro and Max finishes render iris detail and lens edges more precisely for large headshots. Glare removal is usually the first step in a retouch chain — clear the lenses, then Face Retouch, then Perfect Smile — and it is a must before a Passport Photo, where reflections that hide the eyes are grounds for rejection. Compare against the original before you download.