how do i deblur a license plate [Locked - start new thread if you want help]

[Guest]

how do i deblur a license plate

[kendallplant]

Hi there -

It's extremeley difficult to reverse a blur, expecially one that intentionally hides something like a license plate.

Most tutorials that I found online deal with sharpening slightly blurred photos using the smart sharpen filter, which you can access by going to Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen. When I tried using this method on an extremely blurred photo, I got very sub-par results. It might be worth a try, but not necessarily a perfect solution.

Your issue is probably better suited for the general Photoshop forum. The folks over there have many years of experience with Photoshop and may have a solution for you. You can find the forum here: http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/general

[Guest]

Thanks guys for the response, i'm sorry i described it wrong. The license plate isn't completly blurred out, the car was in motion. The reason i'm try to find out this license plate number, the vehicle hit my car and then took off. An individaul say it happen and took a picture of the car. Any help will be helpful. thanks again

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[sudarshan.t]

Can you post that picture here? One of us may be able to help you 'de-blur' the image depending on how bad the blur is.

[Guest]

How do  I post a picture on here?

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[sudarshan.t]

Use the little camera icon on the top of the text formatting in reply section to post your image.

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, Rjdz711, you will find instructions on how to post images on this page: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2324

[moh38703624]

Please can any one help with this white car I would apreciated

[Peru Bob]

There is no image posted.  Make sure you are using a computer with a browser, not a phone or email.

[sudarshan.t]

While it may be possible to recover very little data back by working with a picture that has already been blurred, it may sometimes prove to be a redundant effort.

When you blur an image that is raster (JPG or similar), you intentionally remove the data from that area of the picture. Remember, JPG is a lossy file format - unless you're in an advanced setup where you have a version tracking application to keep copies of your files historically.

Photoshop or any image processing software for that matter works with data that is available to it on canvas. In your case, with a picture that has a blur applied to an area within it, Photoshop cannot process the area to bring back the pixels that were 'blurred' earlier.

Smart Sharpen can remove blur - but it depends on the amount of blur that was originally applied to the picture. Photoshop developers are yet to build AI into it!

[acenasir86]

[acenasir86]

Can you help me out as well?

[Peru Bob]

Your picture didn't upload.

[Guest]

Sorry guys, I had to sign in to reply. Here is the picture which I'm trying to get the license plate number.

[PECourtejoie]

Hi! I don't see any motion blur, just insufficient resolution. Is this the full size image that's been sent to you?

[erice76712644]

How about this one. I am working with law enforcement to ID this plate.

[Cathy2013]

Best I could do... just not enough info in the photo. Sorry

[Peru Bob]

Those will be tough.

[Guest]

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Please help me to find the thieves who stole my  laptops. this is a CCTV footage which i got from near by place. Here I found two thieves came in this red Hunk bike. But in this medium quality footage, bike's number is not visible. Someone who knows how to clear it, please help me.

Regards,

Navneet

[michaelk93619069]

Can you help me with this

phone was stolen bye man in that car

[Peru Bob]

Sorry, not high enough resolution to do anything.

[chad7634]

Hi Would you be able to do anything with these pictures The vehicle in the road brown/black

[Peru Bob]

No, sorry.

[tracec22858820]

hey guys, I saw this topic and I have been trying to uncover a Liscense plate tag as well. If anyone could help me it would be appreciated. I understand if you can't because this picture is in terrible quality

[JonsAcer]

I have a similar problem - I would love to be able to read a CCTV image of a license plate (of a car that ran into my bike), but have not been able to do it - can any one out there help (photo uploaded)?