We recently returned from a baseball tournament and I was reviewing the photos I took and I have a great shot of my son catching a ball and getting an out on !st. The problem is it is slightly out of focus and blurred. Is there anyway I can clear this up a bit in Photoshop or will I just have to scrap it the way it is?
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You can play around with layer adjustments, but depending on how much it is blurred will determine how much you can adjust.
You can also lower the opacity and use it as a background. It may look great behind the better pictures.
Thanks Judy. I'll try and play with it.
Try the Unsharp mask as well ... sometimes just sharpening the photo a wee bit will help, but too much can make it look grainy.... again ... play with it
...it will depend how blurry your photo is as to how well it works
You can also try creating a black and white photo of it ... maybe even put it through the sketch filters after desaturating it .. it can give you some interesting and workable pieces
Thanks Susan.
Maybe this will help?
Thank's Lórien
Thanks for the link Lorien. I'll give it a go.
thanks, Lorien!
Thanks! I will try this. My daughter recently had a recital and almost all photos we took are blurred. My solution was also to use a few as a background like Judy suggested, but maybe there's hope
Depending on how badly they're blurred, reducing the size can help. I'll also second Susan's suggestion of Unsharp Mask, as the technique behind that is pretty much how you rescue a slightly out-of-focus negative when you're working with film, and Photoshop does a pretty good job of calculating that if you can learn what the various settings in the panel do.
If it's too blurry to be fixed with unsharp mask, I usually have one of two good options. I can scrap it in a reduced size where the blur won't be as noticeable; that's the one if I want it to be really solid-looking. Alternatively, that blur can give a lovely dreamy quality to the image if I set the photo's blend mode to color and then clip it to a blended photo mask or a large watercolor brush that I've used as a mask stamp. I may even choose to blur it a bit more to make it feel more watercolor-y, if the photo's got sort of a dreamy tone to it already.
Thanks Holly
thanks, Holly!
Great suggestions everyone! I will definitely be trying some the next time I have a blurry photo to use. I usually try unsharp mask on a duplicate layer above the original image and then use a layer mask and/or lower the opacity once I’ve sharpened it. (I always do this to sharpen eyes in larger portrait type photos to give them a bit of sparkle!)
Yep--if the eyes are sharpened, even subtly, our brain registers that as a more interesting/better photo.
I may have to try sharpening with a high pass filter, though--there are days when I just don't want to muck about with unsharp mask!
Thanks for the link Lorien..Great suggestions everyone..
Though I use some separate programs, rather than Photoshop's own filters to give all images some tweaks..I use 'Redfield' plugins collection and 'Topaz Photoshop Plugins Bundle' and 'Onone photo Studio' and finally 'Google Nik Collection'..All these plugin needs money to buy, but have some great plugins inside to make all images totally different and beautiful..And because these are also photoshop plugins beside the stand alone versions i don't need to leave photoshop to use them..i use Photoshop CS6 mainly but 'Redfield plugins collection' works on CS2 very fine..'Topaz Plugins' works on Elements 10/11 and for Photoshop it needs at least CS4..
Here's a free version of Perfect Photo Effects, it has a 170 image effect, i hope one of them can help reducing noises-- http://www.on1.com/products/effects9free/
Redfield's Noise reducing filter is free to download-- http://www.redfieldplugins.com/filterSharplet.htm
Topaz has a 30 day free trial version available-- http://www.topazlabs.com/