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May 26, 2010
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Cleaning up Surveillance Footage

  • May 26, 2010
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This doesn't necessarily have to be about Photoshop, but any program (although I've heard CS5 Photoshop referred to as "demon magic"). I have some grainy, blurry surveillance footage that I was hoping to get some information from (license plate). I don't expect the process to be simple, but I was hoping for a way to clean up the footage in order to make this license plate out.

I have the video and can take frames from it. I also have a high resolution super clear still image taken from a digital camera (taken at a later time) placed exactly where the video surveillance camera was so that I could compare to two. I was hoping I could tell the grainy image from the surveillance footage to match and change it's pixels to that of the clean image. This would then adjust everything equally and the license plate would become clear. This of course sounds good in theory, but I don't know if a program is out there to actually do this, if Photoshop can, or if there is another way?

Thanks!

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    davescm
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    May 26, 2010

    You could try this plu in   http://www.focusmagic.com/

    I must emphasise I have not used this software but the website claims to achieve what you are trying to do.

    Dave

    May 26, 2010

    billy0378 wrote:

    I also have a high resolution super clear still image taken from a digital camera (taken at a later time) placed exactly where the video surveillance camera was so that I could compare to two. I was hoping I could tell the grainy image from the surveillance footage to match and change it's pixels to that of the clean image. This would then adjust everything equally and the license plate would become clear. This of course sounds good in theory, but I don't know if a program is out there to actually do this, if Photoshop can, or if there is another way?

    What you need is Photoshop CSI.   

    John T Smith
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    May 26, 2010

    What the other John is saying... is that there really is no way to make something out of nothing... unless you are on a TV show where what they do is not real

    You can't make pixels where there are none