Upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP. Brush the glare on glasses, glass, a screen, packaging, or skin. Pick that surface. Rebuild only the marked hotspot and download a file that keeps every other pixel.
Glare is missing information, not a dark filter.
A blown-out hotspot has no detail left to brighten or darken. The tool rebuilds a plausible surface inside your mark, so check eyes, labels, and screen content before you use the result.
Upload one photo you may edit, paint over the hotspot, choose the surface under it, then compare and download a composite that keeps every unmarked pixel.
Upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP, then brush the hotspot on glasses, glass, a screen, packaging, or skin before you spend credits.
Glare photos made with a separate image model; each fix is one real run of this tool. Actual results vary.
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Surface under the glare
The preset tells the rebuild what to protect.
Keeps frames, tint, and visible eyes
Cost and limits
Pick the surface
Each surface preset changes what the reconstruction protects. Choose the one under the hotspot before you spend credits, and run a second pass when one photo has glare on two different surfaces.
Flash, ring light, and window reflections that sit on the lens. The preset keeps frames, lens edges, and tint, and matches the eyes to the parts still visible through the glass.
Check before download: If glare hides an entire eye, the rebuilt eye is an estimate. Compare iris colour and gaze with the other eye.
Lamps, sky, or your own silhouette mirrored in a window, glass door, museum case, or the glass over a framed print. The preset continues the scene or artwork behind the glass.
Check before download: Fine brush strokes and painted details under a large reflection are reinvented, not recovered.
Blown-out highlights on bottles, jars, cosmetic tubes, foil bags, and laminated boxes. The preset restores the material colour and leaves a soft natural highlight.
Check before download: Label words under the hotspot are not invented. Retake the shot if the ingredients or price must be legible.
Ceiling lights or windows reflected on a phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, or TV. The preset removes the reflection and continues the on-screen picture from the surrounding pixels.
Check before download: Numbers, interface text, and faces hidden by the glare are not recovered. Use a screenshot when you need the exact content.
Specular shine on a forehead, nose, cheek, or bald head from flash or hard sun. The preset replaces the hotspot with matte skin in the nearby tone and keeps pores, freckles, and moles.
Check before download: The preset does not smooth or reshape faces. Brush only the shine, not the whole face.
Three steps
Keep the original file. Mark the smallest area that covers the glare plus a thin margin, choose the matching surface, then judge the result at full size before you download it.
Choose a JPG, PNG, or WebP up to 5 MB, with each side from 256 to 4,096 pixels and no more than 16 megapixels. Sign in first so the upload is bound to your account.
Paint over the hotspot and its soft halo. Zoom, undo, eraser, and clear are free. Select eyeglasses, glass, product, screen, or skin, then confirm 30 credits. An empty mask cannot start a run.
Drag the before-and-after divider across the edited area. Outside the mask, the download is your original pixels. Inside it, the rebuilt surface is blended in with a feathered edge.
Original cases
Four original cases made for this page. The glare photos were generated with a separate image model so no customer upload is published. Each glare-free version is a single real run of this tool's pipeline on September 17, 2026: the named surface preset, a hand-drawn mask, the 1K rebuild, and the pixel-locked composite. They are not benchmarks, so inspect your own result against the source.
A video-call style portrait with a bright ring-light reflection across both lenses. Only the lenses were marked, so skin, hair, and frames stay untouched.
A framed botanical print photographed on a wall opposite a window. The mask covered the reflected window panes on the glass.
An amber serum bottle shot with direct flash for a product listing. The white hotspot on the glass shoulder was marked, while the label area stayed outside the mask.
A tablet showing a landscape photo, captured under office ceiling lights. Both light bands were brushed with the screen preset. Look closely at both bands: a faint outline survives where the mask stopped short of the soft halo, because pixels outside the mark are kept exactly as uploaded. Brush the halo too.
Why it happens
Glare is specular reflection: light from a lamp, window, flash, or the sun bounces off a smooth surface at the same angle it arrived and goes straight into the lens. Understanding the geometry tells you which shots can be fixed in camera and which need editing.
Rough paper scatters light in every direction. Glass, screens, lacquer, and oily skin reflect most of it in one direction, so a small change in camera angle can move the hotspot off the subject entirely.
Uncoated glass with a refractive index near 1.5 reflects roughly 4% of incoming light at each surface. Against a bright window that is enough to overpower a darker print or screen behind it. Anti-reflective lens coatings reduce this to well under 1%, which is why coated glasses often show a faint green or purple tint instead of a white flare.
Light reflected from glass and water is most strongly polarized near Brewster's angle, about 56° from straight-on for glass and about 53° for water. A circular polarizer can cut much of that glare, but it does little when you shoot straight at the surface or at bare metal, whose reflections are not strongly polarized.
Once glare pushes pixels to pure white, the file has no record of what sat underneath. Lowering highlights only turns that area grey. Removing it means rebuilding the surface from surrounding context, which is what this tool does inside your mask.
A reflection is a recognisable mirrored image, such as a window frame or a person, laid over the subject. Glare is the bright, washed-out patch where that reflected light is so strong it hides detail. Most real photos have both: a soft reflection around a clipped glare core. Brush the whole visible area, including the halo, so the rebuilt surface blends into untouched pixels.
Shoot it right next time
Editing should be the fallback. These capture habits prevent most glare before it reaches the sensor.
Honest scope
It rebuilds the pixels you paint on one ordinary photo. It does not auto-detect glare, relight the scene, or recover true detail that the glare fully erased.
Rebuild local hotspots and reflections on lenses, glass, screens, glossy products, and skin. Several hotspots on the same surface can go in one mask. The composite keeps your source pixels wherever the mask is empty.
It does not recover an eye, a label, or screen text that the glare fully hid. It does not fix glare that covers most of the frame, and model output arrives at 1K before the workbench composites it back to your uploaded size.
Do not upload passports, IDs, licenses, or legal documents, and do not use an edited photo where rules require an unaltered picture. Many official photo rules, including US passport photos, already require removing glasses. Only edit photos you have the right to modify.
Choose the right fix
Glare can be prevented at capture, hidden with sliders, cloned by hand, or rebuilt by AI. These methods solve different problems, so pick the one that matches the photo you already have.
| Method | Best for | Control | Tradeoff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banana Pro AI Remove Glare from Photo | An existing JPG, PNG, or WebP with a local hotspot on glasses, glass, a screen, glossy packaging, or skin | Brush, eraser, zoom, and a surface preset; a composite that keeps every unmarked pixel | No editing skill needed and texture is rebuilt, not greyed out. Detail fully hidden by glare is estimated, each run costs credits, and sign-in is required |
| Photoshop Spot Healing, Clone Stamp, or Content-Aware Fill | Retouchers fixing small hotspots next to clean, repeatable texture on a desktop | Full manual sampling, layers, and history | Maximum control, but slow on eyes, gradients, and curved glass, and it needs skill plus a paid subscription |
| Lightroom or Camera Raw highlights, dehaze, and masks | Mild veiling glare or haze where highlights are not clipped to pure white | Non-destructive sliders and brush masks, plus a reflection-removal option aimed at large window reflections | Keeps real detail when it exists, but sliders cannot restore clipped pixels and often leave grey patches |
| Circular polarizing filter at capture | Photographing windows, water, framed art, and painted or lacquered surfaces you can shoot again | Rotate the filter while watching the reflection fade | Recovers true detail optically, but only before the shot, weakly on metal or straight-on angles, and at the cost of 1–2 stops of light |
| Built-in phone erasers | Quick fixes on a supported phone when a rough result is acceptable | Tap or circle a spot; the phone decides the rest | Free on supported devices, but tuned for erasing objects, so small or very bright glare is hit-or-miss and there is no surface choice |
| One-click AI photo enhancers | Whole-image touch-ups where glare is a minor issue | No mask; the enhancer changes the whole frame | Convenient, but it can miss the hotspot, smooth skin, or alter text and colours you never meant to change |
The model paints a believable surface inside your mask using the lighting, colour, and texture around it. That works well for small hotspots on smooth materials. It is an estimate where glare hid unique detail, such as the colour of an eye, a line of small text, or a signature on a print.
If a halo remains, widen the mask slightly and run the downloaded file again as a new paid job. If you need an object or person gone rather than a reflection, use Object Remover. If the whole photo is too bright or flat, fix exposure with a relighting tool instead of this page.
A signed-in run creates a tracked task. You can reopen the result from My Creations after a dropped connection without another charge for that request id. The composite you inspect and download is built in your browser from the original upload and the returned surface.
The current storage backend has no automatic expiry for uploaded or generated image objects. Delete in My Creations soft-deletes the task record from your account history; it does not delete the underlying image object or the provider copy. Review the Privacy Policy before uploading photos of other people or sensitive scenes.
Tool specifications
The workbench accepts one JPG, PNG, or WebP image up to 5 MB. Each side must be between 256 and 4,096 pixels, and the image must stay within 16 megapixels. One run costs 30 credits. The model rebuilds the marked area at 1K with an automatic aspect ratio, and the composite you download is returned at the uploaded pixel size.
By using the tool, you confirm that your upload complies with the Terms of Service. Identity documents and edits presented as unaltered official photos are not allowed.
Reviewed by the Banana Pro AI product team · Last reviewed: 2026-09-17.
Continue editing
Glare removal is one focused edit. Use the matching tool when the problem is an object, overall lighting, blur, markup, or a region you want to fill with something new.
Questions
Answers about eyeglass glare, screens, image quality, identity photos, and credits.
Upload the photo, brush over the bright hotspot and its halo, choose the surface under it (eyeglasses, glass, product, screen, or skin), and run the edit. The tool rebuilds only the marked area and keeps every other pixel from your original file.
Choose the eyeglasses preset and brush only the reflection on the lenses, not the frames or face. The rebuild keeps the frame and lens tint and matches the eyes to the parts still visible. If the glare completely hides an eye, treat the result as an estimate and compare it with the other eye.
Not the true original. Pure white glare stores no information, so any tool can only estimate what was underneath. For glasses the estimate follows the visible eye; for labels and screens the tool avoids inventing readable words, so retake the photo or use a screenshot when exact text matters.
Outside your mask the download uses your original pixels at the original width and height, so the rest of the photo does not change. Inside the mask the rebuilt surface is generated at 1K and blended in with a feathered edge, so very large masks on very large files can look softer than the surroundings.
Pick the glass preset and brush the reflected panes, lamps, or silhouette. It works best when the reflection covers a limited part of the frame. When the reflection covers most of the glass, a polarizing filter or a reshoot from an angle gives a truer result.
Yes. Use the screen preset and brush the reflected lights. The tool continues the picture on the display from what is visible around the glare. It will not recover numbers or interface text that the glare fully covered.
For glass and water you can reshoot, yes: a polarizer removes reflected light before it reaches the sensor, so the true detail is kept. It works best at an angle and does little on bare metal or photos you have already taken. That is where marked-area reconstruction helps.
Do not use this tool for passports, IDs, or other official photos. Edited pictures can be rejected, and many official photo rules already require taking glasses off. Retake the photo with even, diffused light instead.
One signed-in run costs 30 credits. Zooming, brushing, undo, and switching surfaces are free. Retrying the same request after a dropped connection does not charge again, and a run that fails on our side is refunded automatically.
Upload a supported image, mark the hotspot, choose its surface, and download a composite that leaves everything else untouched.
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