Joe Rosensteel 🏳️🌈Adobe’s Project Indigo camera app seems pretty interesting. It is definitely a bunch of experimental features in a trench coat so don’t bank on any of the computational photography features working exactly as advertised. The one I was most excited about was reflection removal. That’s a feature that they added to Adobe Camera Raw but is kind of finicky. It’s a 410MB feature to download, and it can only work on DNGs you’ve taken with Project Indigo. It doesn’t always detect reflections correctly.
When you run it on an image you take you get three images. The original, the “reflection”, and the modified result. You’ll note that the surface reflections have not been removed, but what’s visible through the water has.
This one is a shop window, where any person could identify the reflection if you drew a grid over it for a CAPTCHA. Reflection removal does not correctly identify it and instead perceives an ambient haze to remove.
The first time it worked. I guess it has to be an extreme, glancing angle for it to figure out what the reflection is. It extracted it without damaging the pastries. The strawberry pistachio danish at Nemesis is delicious, btw.
Another reflection removal test. There were some jellyfish in the mouth of Ketchikan Creek. The 10x “super resolution” upscaling, combined with the reflection removal, produces a lot of artifacts that look like oversharpening. Like the black outlines around bubbles and detritus including chunky edges in the oily stuff floating at the bottom.
Karoy Lorentey@joesteel I find it almost magical, but it needs a very specific kind of picture — it works well for me when shooting subjects through a pane of glass, like museum installations or this sad little koala in the SF Zoo