Blurred Photos

CarolT wrote

Is there a way?

The select tool and a fairly broad tolerance on Unsharp
Mask, reworking the boundaries in the key areas several
times may be your best bet but don’t expect perfection

Chris

On 2007-01-09 16:59:58 -0500, "CarolT" said:

I’m not the best with a digital camera. I took several impromptu pictures at my granddaughter’s wedding this morning, only to find out that most of them were blurred because I did not have correct camera settings.

I work a lot in photoshop and can fix almost anything, but I don’t know how to "unblur." Please help. Is there a way? These are special, and I can’t ever duplicate them again. Thanks for any suggestions. CarolT

As was posted, unsharp is your best bet. I’d work on them a bit at at time, figures, faces, etc.

You may want to think about two things: first, downsampling the images, and second, use some creative editing…

In many instances an image will have the background slightly out-of-focus, or underexposed, or even desturated, to enhance the subject. You could take the same approach, carefully sharpening the faces with an eye towards smoothing and highlighting. Think "glamour shot". The rest can be a little soft.

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On 2007-01-09 16:59:58 -0500, "CarolT" said:

I’m not the best with a digital camera. I took several impromptu pictures at my granddaughter’s wedding this morning, only to find out that most of them were blurred because I did not have correct camera settings.

I work a lot in photoshop and can fix almost anything, but I don’t know how to "unblur." Please help. Is there a way? These are special, and I can’t ever duplicate them again. Thanks for any suggestions. CarolT

As was posted, unsharp is your best bet. I’d work on them a bit at at time, figures, faces, etc.

You may want to think about two things: first, downsampling the images, and second, use some creative editing…

In many instances an image will have the background slightly out-of-focus, or underexposed, or even desturated, to enhance the subject. You could take the same approach, carefully sharpening the faces with an eye towards smoothing and highlighting. Think "glamour shot". The rest can be a little soft.

Do all as mentioned above and don’t show them on screen. Print them as small as possible.

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I’m not the best with a digital camera. I took several impromptu pictures at my granddaughter’s wedding this morning, only to find out that most of them were blurred because I did not have correct camera settings.
I work a lot in photoshop and can fix almost anything, but I don’t know how to "unblur." Please help. Is there a way? These are special, and I can’t ever duplicate them again. Thanks for any suggestions. CarolT

Carol,

You’ve gotten some good starting points. There are a few add-on/plug-ins, that are said to do an even better job. Dang, I wish that I had the URLs to help you, but I’m on the laptop by the pool, not at the office. Do a Google.Groups search for things like "remove blur," "camera shake," etc. in this and in the comp.graphics.apps.photoshop NGs. There have been several recs. for these programs, and some users really have touted them. Most of the articles, that I recall, have been over the last two years. I do not even recall who the respondents were, or I’d give you some Author Names. IIRC, some of these had algorithms that did an incredible job – more than I would ever have imagined.

Good hunting,
Hunt

"CarolT" wrote in message
| I’m not the best with a digital camera. I took several impromptu pictures | at my granddaughter’s wedding this morning, only to find out that most of | them were blurred because I did not have correct camera settings. |
| I work a lot in photoshop and can fix almost anything, but I don’t know how
| to "unblur." Please help. Is there a way? These are special, and I can’t
| ever duplicate them again. Thanks for any suggestions. CarolT |

If you’re willing to go beyond Photoshop’s inherent capabilities, look at a product called "Focus Magic"

Norm

On 2007-01-09 17:59:58 -0400, "CarolT" said:

I’m not the best with a digital camera. I took several impromptu pictures at my granddaughter’s wedding this morning, only to find out that most of them were blurred because I did not have correct camera settings.

I work a lot in photoshop and can fix almost anything, but I don’t know how to "unblur." Please help. Is there a way? These are special, and I can’t ever duplicate them again. Thanks for any suggestions. CarolT

Make sure you de-blur in specific channels, the worst once with more blurring and keeping the other channelrs with more information. Usually the blue channel needs a lot of work with digital cameras set at an iso too high.
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:59:58 -0700, "CarolT"
wrote:

I’m not the best with a digital camera. I took several impromptu pictures at my granddaughter’s wedding this morning, only to find out that most of them were blurred because I did not have correct camera settings.
I work a lot in photoshop and can fix almost anything, but I don’t know how to "unblur." Please help. Is there a way? These are special, and I can’t ever duplicate them again. Thanks for any suggestions. CarolT

A lateral thinking approach may be to hide the blur behind effects which give a sharpness to blurry images. This article:

http://www.ransen.com/Articles/Hiding-Pixels/Hide.htm

is about "hiding the pixels" but could equally well be called "hiding the blur"

Easy to use graphics effects:
http://www.ransen.com/