Our brains melted when Adobe demoed their upcoming blurry picture killer in Photoshop. Wha!? No more blurry pics? Is that possible? Is this real life? YES. Here are a few examples — including the most famous blurry picture — of the upcoming deblurring tool working its magic.
The newly deblurred photos are being shown off by Jue Wang (the guy who demoed the deblurring feature) and he’s soliciting images to test Photoshop’s new tool with. Remember, the deblurring tool only kills camera shake — they can’t yet deal with motion blur or defocus blur. Also, their research on deblurring is ongoing so it’s very possible that new techniques will allow for even better deblurring. Which is crazy, as it’s already out of this freaking world. Creating reality out of thin air. Anyways! On to the examples. [Juew.org via PetaPixel]
The original picture was captured by Robert Capa and it’s probably the most famous blurry picture ever — it is a snapshot of D-Day, after all. Wang says that the image makes for a great ‘extreme’ test because the picture quality is so poor. He goes on to talk about the new non-blurry image:
It recovers some details that you won’t be able to see easily in the original. Of course the noise gets boosted somehow, we applied a small amount of noise removal on the output, but maybe a decent denoising algorithm can help here.
[That]means to recover a single pixel, we have to consider at least 55 pixel nearby (in practice far more than that).
This deblurring thing is just amazing.
wsDK_II
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 8:45 AMI think what you mean is “less blury pics”. they are still blury but are not bad!
Priggle
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:44 AM+1
Antipodean
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 11:45 AMBetter than the original is still a pretty good outcome. Sure, there’s still some artefacts but it’s still good stuff. Cant wait to get hold of the next version of PS personally.
Matt
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 9:09 AMNot bad, but also not fantastic.
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 1:30 PMThe fact that it works at all is fantastic. This is excellent!
Antipodean
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 2:27 PM+1
Stuii
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 9:17 AMso what happens if you take a slightly above average pic and run the deblurer?
Kyle
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 9:40 AMThis feature is practically useless
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 1:36 PMOn the contrary! Anyone who has to do anything with photos in a professional sense will find this tremendously useful!
You’d normally just simply throw out slightly blurry images as useless and unrecoverable- it is almost impossible to manually edit out blur, certainly far too much trouble to bother with. With this deblur feature you can make use of a LOT more of your images.
This would also be fantastic for reprocessing old films, and if it could be done on the fly this would be awesome in TVs for improving picture quality from low-res sources.
Antipodean
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 2:31 PMAgreed, the possibilities are endless, you could restore an otherwise useless old photo from days of yore, and make them relevant, restore that blurry old picture of a relative that had no other photos,.. simply endless.
Simon
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 11:04 PMI deal with photographs professionally and whilst I can see the advantage in fixing substandard happy snap images, if I was sent an image similar to the “fixed” ones shown here or in the demo that Adobe has run I would sack the photographer!
chris
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:18 AMthat is awesome! i can’t believe you all expected crystal clear photos as a result. You have to be realistic, and that is better than i thought would have been possible.
Pretty damn impressive if you ask me
Fenix
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:46 AMYeah exactly, sometimes you have an image that’s the tiniest bit blurry (shutter was too slow or you moved mid shoot). I think it could work really well for these situations.
In fact, I’m happy that this tool isn’t going to magically fix every noobs blurry photo.
cleverclogs
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 12:00 PMZoom to grid D7! Enhance! Enhance!
Jake
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 1:53 PMHehehe
amy
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 1:57 PMWhat if you kept on applying the ‘less blur’ script on the same image; will you get a perfect looking image?
Arcane
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 6:49 PMAdobe should just use this on a load of blurry UFO pictures and find out what they really are.
Perri
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:55 AMBe a professional and take good photographs the first time. If you don’t know how to use your camera to the point where you can’t eliminate blur, put it down.
Mitch Bus
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 6:29 AMWhat if they have a disability of some sort? Like a mild form of Parkinson’s, or essential tremor?
Jake
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 1:55 PMI imagine you hold your camera perfectly still every time the shutter opens as you appear to be quite dense. Good on you pal.
poita
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 9:06 AMYeah, I guess you never took a blurry picture, or have kids, or had a perfect shot but not quite enough time to grab it and it came out blurry. I guess if you are perfect you don’t need photoshop at all, you would get the exposure and saturation so perfect and could control the weather, so you just print straight from your camera and never do any adjustments of any kind. Kudos to you sir.