take fuzziness out of photo?

I have two suggestions for you. No one can make a photo sharper … but you can make it appear sharper. First try this …open your image & double click the thumbnail to make it layer zero. Now dupe the layer. Next, use Filter > Other > High Pass. Then click Overlay in the layers palette. You may then want to add a Layer Mask in Hide All and use a white brush to paint in the implied sharpness where you need it most. Merge the layers & then make a new dupe layer. Run Filter > Blur > Lens Blur. Now add a layer mask and hide all. Paint in the blur on the surrounding areas so your subject appears to be sharper. Good luck;

Craig Flory

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"chaz" wrote:

i have a photo takend from a distance with my dig camera. its kind of out of focus and i wanted to see if there was a way to take the blur out of it? i have photoshop cs.

Blur is caused by many things – camera shake, movement of the subject, a slow shutter speed, low quality lenses, fingerprints on the lens, even old worn-out monitors will make it appear that the photo is blurred etc. Exactly what is blurred and to what degree?
First try the unsharp mask under the filters menu.
Could you post an example somewhere? (not here)

i have a photo takend from a distance with my dig camera. its kind of

out of

focus and i wanted to see if there was a way to take the blur out of it?

i

have photoshop cs.

Blur is caused by many things – camera shake, movement of the subject, a slow shutter speed, low quality lenses, fingerprints on the lens, even old worn-out monitors will make it appear that the photo is blurred etc. Exactly what is blurred and to what degree?
First try the unsharp mask under the filters menu.
Could you post an example somewhere? (not here)

I concur with stewie…try the unsharp mask…otherwise there isnt much you can do with a crappy blurry photo

chaz wrote:

i have a photo takend from a distance with my dig camera. its kind of out of focus and i wanted to see if there was a way to take the blur out of it? i have photoshop cs.

chaz

I use the plugin Focus Magic as my normal sharpening tool. It certainly does a lot better than USM. It is designed to correct unfocused pictures.

However, it only works to a point. If the picture is a tad out of focus, it’s pretty good. That works up to about a 7 pixel correction. From about 8 to 20 pixels, it really doesn’t work that well. The problem is that there isn’t enough detail to work with.

This tool works by finding edges and making them into thinner lines. Well, that’s what it appears to be doing. I’m sure it’s more complicated than that. Finding a pretty thin line and making it thinner is pretty easy and pretty good. So, that 1 to 4 pixel sharpening that I do on good pictures is very good.

However, a 12 pixel fix is working on a picture that really doesn’t have any lines. The edges are a fat, blurry collection of pixels from both sides of the edge. Crunching that down to a thinner line will involve moving a lot of pixels around. That usually results in a very painterly affect on your photograph. That may help, it may not. You’ll have to judge.

Focus Magic also has a motion blur fix. Big corrections with that look very painted. Small motion fixes are pretty good.

Just a happy customer,
Clyde

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i have a photo takend from a distance with my dig camera. its kind of out of focus and i wanted to see if there was a way to take the blur out of it? i have photoshop cs.

chaz

..I don’t use Photoshop CS I use paint shop pro, in that program there is this thing called SOFTNESS I use that to take the fuzziness out, maybe Photoshop CS has a similar tool.

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