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julietjoy84
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March 17, 2018
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Fix the blurry (unblur) picture

  • March 17, 2018
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Anyone knows how to fix the blurry picture in Photoshop to be ublurred?

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    March 18, 2018

    julietk, you do realize that this is about uncrashing a crashed car? There's no way, ever, you can get it back into focus. What Dave is trying to show you is emergency repair that may work as long as you don't expect too much.

    EDIT: sorry about the rather brutal crash analogy, it was just the best I could think of...

      davescm
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      davescmCommunity Expert
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      March 17, 2018

      Short answer - no.

      If it is really unrepeatable, you could try smart sharpen - but it will give a "plastic" look to the skin

      Best way is to put this one into the "I learnt something bin"  and next time ensure focus is on the subject not the distant background

      Dave

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        julietjoy84Author
        Participant
        March 17, 2018

        Awesome! Thanks, davescm​! Can you please explain me the steps for this smart sharpen?

        davescm
        Community Expert
        davescmCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        March 17, 2018

        Hi

        The steps to use smart sharpen are below - but, as I posted earlier, the result of extreme sharpening and associated noise reduction gives a plastically look

        1. Right click on the layer in the layer panel and then choose "Convert to Smart Object"

        2. Go to menu Filter> Sharpen > Smart Sharpen

        3. Turn up the sharpen amount and the noise reduction amount then click OK

        4. Get a soft black brush and click on the mask in the layers panel. Paint with black around the background where you do not want the image sharpened.

        Dave

        Mylenium
        Mylenium
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        March 17, 2018

        What's not there is not there. There are no "hidden" sharp pixels. As was already suggested, using some filters may improve the result, but there's a ton of other issues with the image. It's very low res and also noisy, so applying any effects is probably goind to do more damage than good...

        Mylenium

        macpawel
        macpawel
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        March 17, 2018

        I suppose - no way

        you can try to use filters:

        Filter > Sharpen > Shake Reduction

        or

        Filter Sharpen > Smarf Filter and here set Remove Gaussian Blur option

        but it maybe makes this image a little bit better but not normal sharp

        pawel

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