Can you sharpen something that's out of focus?

Edrof · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:27

I have a cute picture of my daughter, but it's horribly blurry. I know this is a long shot but is there anything I can do to make it significantly better? Or is this impossible?

(PS: I'm not bothered about anything in the background.)

Ahleckz · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:28

THAT'S ART! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND DOF. FOOL!

Reaper 392 · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:37

this is going to end well :rolleyes:

Tomsk · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:38

Maybe.
Ask the people here - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=28 - I think they will have the answer.

AHarvey · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:38

Sorry mate, nothing can be done with that other than trying to retake it.

Dunks · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:42

Unfortunately not.

Kiyoshi · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:48

I should imagine she'll start to look 'fake' if you try to sharpen that image, shame!

TheBigCheese · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:53

I'll have a look for you...give me a minute...(no this isn't going to be a comedy photoshop

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Glaucus · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:54

No idea, but this is why I want that new camera. That takes a picture of everything and then in post processing you decide what you want in focus.

http://www.lytro.com/

$499, if I can save enough I may well by one next year when I'm over there.

SexyGreyFox · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:57

Best I could do

TheBigCheese · 20 Nov 2011 at 14:58

Obviously it's limited what you can do with motion blur but I hope that's an improvement for you. I took the liberty of fixing the colours and increasing the contrast a bit to help define the edges.

Rozzy85 · 20 Nov 2011 at 15:31

You can't do anything easily that would actually make it look better since the information to do so isn't there. It'll just look speckled from over sharpening.

Liampope · 20 Nov 2011 at 15:34

Rozzy85 said:
You can't do anything easily that would actually make it look better since the information to do so isn't there. It'll just look speckled from over sharpening.

The info is there to a point - it's just smeared over the sensor a bit. Just need whatever future version of photoshop gets the new de-blurring technique they recently demo'd.

opethdisciple · 20 Nov 2011 at 15:40

Have you seen this?

arknor · 20 Nov 2011 at 15:41

Rozzy85 · 20 Nov 2011 at 15:47

Liampope said:
The info is there to a point - it's just smeared over the sensor a bit. Just need whatever future version of photoshop gets the new de-blurring technique they recently demo'd.

There probably are algorithms that could fix it up better. You can see the blur fields are split in two from looking at the 'l' on the shirt but you'd have to find a way to separate (hardest part) them and then align them better.

PermaBanned · 20 Nov 2011 at 15:48

opethdisciple said:
Have you seen this?

See it all you like, without incredibly precise accelerometer data embedded into each image it's complete bull.

fiveub · 20 Nov 2011 at 16:04

Had a little go myself:

Just had a mess around so it looked good.

Edrof · 20 Nov 2011 at 16:58

Thanks for having a go guys, I didn't hold out much hope anyway

Cheers for your efforts!

JCBeastie · 20 Nov 2011 at 17:17

Adobe were showing off a new function in the next Photoshop that can do just that... no help to you though.