A blurred image is the worst. And no matter how steady you think your hand is, it can be easy to ruin a shot. Luckily, Adobe’s cooking up a Photoshop feature that’ll automatically eliminate blur. You won’t believe your eyes.
The feature, demoed at the recent Adobe MAX 2011 conference, is experimental at this point. The Photoshop rep on stage won’t say when it’ll be implemented — only that they’re working on it for some feature version. But it’s absolutely incredible. With only a few clicks, a blurry image is quickly analysed, allowed Photoshop to discern exactly how the image was messed up. That is to say, if you accidentally moved your hand slightly to the right and down while the shutter snapped, it’ll pick that up. And then it reverses it — and that’s the totally magical part.
It doesn’t seem possible, but as if it’s completely altering reality, the Photoshop deblurring compensates for the extraneous motion and gives you a completely crisp picture. It works on text too. The potential for this is incredibly huge: no more ruined personal photos, and, hey, maybe we’ll see the death of stupid blurry “leaked” gadget shots. [PetaPixel]
Sevrin
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:04 AMWoW!… Adobe has finally invented the ‘ENHANCE’ button that TV crime shows have been pretending to use for the last decade.
Most impressive!
Jackson Bison
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:14 AMNext Photoshop will also be able to see around corners and under clothes!
Martin
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:43 AMEnhance…Enhance….Enhance……Enhance
warcroft
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 9:31 AMOr, the feature has been available for top secret government agents for years, but only now becoming available to us regular plebs :p
WPDownUnder
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:44 AMAmazing feature for sure – however I’m suspicious about the individual “loading parameters” bit before each image is processed…Whats to say they haven’t had a supercomputer and team of analysts working to identify the specific issues in those 3 pics for weeks – and that separate parameters need to be determined for every shot?
9 time sout of 10, I won’t want my PC doing a 4hr analysis just to recover 1 blurry pic
BUT if the can commericalise this….MAJOR COUP!
EckyThump
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 9:21 AMClearly they have found a way to track the direction of the blur and reverse it, I doubt they would release something that a regular PC running it couldn’t handle! #]
Tim
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:51 AMFor their next miracle I request “uncrop” for times I zoom in too much and dint notice till it’s too late.
MotorMouth
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 4:04 PMPhotoshop should have been non-destructive at least 10 years ago, like After Effects has always been, then anyone woudl be able to “un-crop” to their heart’s content. I can’t believe what a piece of krap it is in 2011, Adobe should be ashamed of themselves.
Sam D
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 8:40 AMConvert to a smart object. That should fix you up.
EckyThump
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 9:19 AMPlease please Adobe release this as an addon filter,.. I can’t afford to keep updating the program every bloody year, but I really want this! #]
Lee Bledsoe
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:46 AMInvest your money in some new lenses instead, if you let more light in you can have a faster shutter speed and thus less blur.
Probably be cheaper then paying Adobe’s AUD RRP every 2 years.
EckyThump
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:23 PMSo your saying a more expensive lens will negate lens blur? Sure if you shoot at a higher speed you reduce it, but you won’t get rid of it on all shots and there is always that one shot!
Jono
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:13 AMI am a little sceptical, I can understand correcting motion blur (that is in focus), but if a photo is out of focus the information has been lost.
Is this just advance image sharpening?
Interesting stuff.
Adz
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:40 AMI’d have to agree with you there this is very interesting stuff.
As the saying goes, ‘you can’t make something from nothing’ ie if the original image is blurry how do they sharpen it if the info was never there.
chugs
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:27 AMwell considering that adobe charge $1800 for a licence I will be looking forward to seeing this on my favorite torrent site in the near future.
Drongo
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:58 AMDon’t be silly
steve
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:15 PMNo you!
Pat
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:09 PMCould someone describe that preset file he had to load?
Something you have to write yourself, what information comprises of it.
Osiris Fox
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:48 PMI’m betting that’s a canned demo so I’m calling nonsense on this existing usefully within the next 5 years. Yes, I’m sure with the appropriate technology and an amazing algo you could “guess” about missing image data and correct the image based on calculated and/or probalistic details plus instrument data (image metadata?) from the camera itself, which is probably what they’re doing.
Pete
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 1:53 PMFinally we’ll get some clear shots of Bigfoot.
EckyThump
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 5:19 PMOoh, UFO’s too #]
Paul
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:25 PMlol gold ..
“Bigfoot IS blurry, and that’s extra scary to me. There’s a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside.”
RIP Mitch.
Franz
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 4:24 PMUse a tripod.
Jono
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:26 AMWould be cool to restore old WWI and WWII photos.
Fuzzy Visionary
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 12:50 AMIt makes sense that an algorithm could be created to re-trace the steps of a blurred image. I don’t think Focus is the aim of this tool, but a motion blurred image would contain a major image (the one that the eye noticed the most), with traces of that same image scattered throughout the picture that is most likely searched for based on the original image as an ‘underexposed’ ghosted image. Work out where the ghosted image smears and pull the equivalent picture information based on the original out of the rest of the image. Hey presto, I don’t think it’s impossible – it’s just well done!