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Remove Glare

Remove glare and reflections from glasses, windows, screens and shiny skin in one upload. Your first image is free, no sign-up.

Original: Woman in her mid 40s with glare on her glasses: Glasses GlareBefore
Remove Glare result: Woman in her mid 40s with glare on her glasses: Glasses GlareAfter

Example result. Upload your photo to make yours.

When you need to remove glare from a photo

Each kind of glare has its own preset, so pick the one that matches the source.

Glasses in portraits

A ring light or flash can turn a lens into a white disc over the eyes. The Glasses Glare preset can remove glare from the lenses and aims to keep the frames. Useful for headshots and profile photos.

Shots through a window or glass

Museum cases, shop windows, car windows and picture frames add your own reflection to the scene. Window & Glass is for photos taken through a pane.

Screens and glossy prints

A photo of a monitor, a document or a printed picture often carries a bright streak from the room lights. Screen & Print is made for that, for example when you copy old family prints with a camera.

Shiny skin and flash hot spots

Oily foreheads and flash on the nose or cheeks leave white patches. Shiny Skin tones them down while the rest of the face is meant to stay as it is.

Mixed or unclear glare

When a photo has a window reflection and a flash spot at once, use Auto and say in the note where each one is.

Why it is hard to remove glare from a photo

Glare does not sit on top of the picture. Where the light blew out, the pixels are white and the detail behind them was never recorded. So removing glare here means redrawing: the AI looks at the area around the glare and paints what most likely belongs there.

A thin streak across a cheek is an easy guess. A lens filled with solid white is a bigger one, and the eyes behind it can come out slightly different from the real ones.

Pick a preset, then point at the glare in words

There is no brush on this tool. You choose one of five presets and can add a note of up to 500 characters, such as "the reflection on the left lens" or "the white streak on the print".

The note is added to your request, so name the spot and the surface. The more specific it is, the less the tool has to guess about what to clean up.

Before you remove glare

  • Start from the original photo in JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB, not a screenshot of it.
  • Pick the preset that matches the source: lenses, glass, screen or print, skin. Use Auto if the photo mixes them.
  • Your first image is free, so choose the preset and write the note before you press the button.
  • Name the spot in the note, for example "the bright circle on the right lens".
  • Expect more guesswork where glare covers a whole lens or a large area, and less where it is a small spot.
  • After the result appears, compare it with your original: eyes, small text, jewelry and frame edges.
  • Then download the image. The free allowance is used, so there is no second run.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. This tool can remove glare and reflections from a photo by redrawing the washed-out area from the detail around it. It works best on small and medium spots. Check the result against your original, since the redrawn area is a best guess.

Upload the portrait, choose Glasses Glare and press the button. The preset aims to clear the reflections on the lenses so the eyes show, and to keep the frames. If one lens is worse, say which in the note box.

Open this page in your phone browser, upload the photo as JPG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB, pick a preset and download the result. There is no app to install and no brush: you describe where the glare is in the note box instead.

Use Auto, which targets glare, reflections and hot spots, and describe the spot in the note, such as "the flash spot on the glass". A flare that washes over a large part of the picture is redrawn with more guesswork, so look closely at the result.

Yes, choose Window & Glass for photos taken through a window, a glass case or a framed picture. The preset is meant to clear the reflection from the pane so the scene behind it shows.

It aims to keep everything outside the glare as it is: the same people, objects, colors and framing. Because the AI generates a new image, small details can still shift, so compare it with the original before you use it.

Your first image is free, no sign-up and no credit card. There is no paid plan yet; after that image a dialog lets you leave an email for when more images are available.

Your photo is only used to create your images and is never used to train AI models. The photo is sent to an AI model provider, which keeps the result for a limited time so you can download it.

Turn off the flash, change the angle so the light source does not bounce straight back, and move away from windows and lamps behind you. For glasses, ask the person to tilt their head a little. A retake is often better than any edit.

One image of about 1024 pixels on the long side, with the aspect ratio of your upload. It is a good fit for profile photos, listings and screens, but not for a large print.

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