Have you seen NCIS, where they get a blurry photo, they push one button and it s

Question:How amazing is that ?
Where can I get myself a button like that ???
Do you have one ?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: How amazing is that ?
Where can I get myself a button like that ???
Do you have one ?

It's called the Magic Pixelator, and it can only be purchased by television law enforcement agencies. One of its other amazing features is that it can take a single pixel and enlarge it 10,000 times and produce a perfectly sharp detailed image.

I can hardly wait for the Magic Pixelator, Mark II. It's supposed to be able to take a single crime scene picture and solve the crime in less than an hour.

(Cue dramatic music. Fade to black.)

ya,

its just tv its pretty much impossible!

Pretty amazing.
You can't.
I wish.

I do not know what NCIS is but if you saw it in a movie or TV it is probably fantasy.

I want one of those transporters on Star Trek so I can go to New Zealand in November! Yeah!

Can we order one for everyone that asks how to sharpen a picture on Yahoo answers? That would solve a lot of our problems.

I would like to have one as well.

I would be nice, wouldn't it?

Something similar requires:

Matlab, about $2,500 USD for the current version and image processing toolbox.

Photoshop CS3 Extended, about $900.00 USD.

I recommend an nice very fast processor. The Intel Q660 overclocked is very nice, about $270.00 USD for the CPU alone.

There are two techniques: Wavlet Transforming for single images and Blind Deconvolution of multiple images such as video.

Neither produces a nice image, but they can pull details out that you can't see in the images. They use the multi-image approach to get the images they do out of the Hubbel Telescope and the like. Not really practical for most people.

I like the far cheaper and higher quality approach of getting everything in focus before I push the shutter release :)

There is a trippy technique using multiple exposures that allows you to extend the depth of field in a photo and that software is readily available online at a decent price. The same packages usually also have the ability to produce very sharp landscape images and such from multiple images.

There is one technique that can be used to reveal details that ordinarily aren't visible in a correctly exposed image called Adpative Local Equalization. Reindeergraphics makes a free plugin for photoshop that can be downloaded. I use it in selected image areas primarily as a basis for special effects because of the way it 'damages' the image in order to reveal the details.

I read an article about NCIS. 99% of what goes on in that program is bullshit. ie - even it if could happen, in the real world, legal processes wouldn't allow it. But it's still a great program!

And with the one-button unsharp mask miracle, did you notice that every time they hit that button, there is a beep? In ever TV program and movie I see, whenever someone uses a computer, it beeps. Mine doesn't though. I've owned many computers and I've never had one beep at me yet - unless I do something wrong of course.

Well, if you think that's amazing, I've got a button that will get me all the printer ink I want, and generally make my life easier. At least that's what the Staples commercials lead us to believe.

Yes, I have an "easy" button. I didn't buy it for myself though.

My computer does not have that button, but my camera does :-) Yeah I'm being a smart bottom but someone had to say it!
Thanks for the giggle Lidy.
Inspire: My computer beeps...but only when I got so impatient I got too far ahead of the processor and held down the enter key in frustration.

I have one for sale I stole on the set of CSI miami.

I'll let you have it at a friends price.
1 million US
as an extra feature it can also resolve the most intricate murder misteries.
Ain't Hollywood great

Picture it software has a sharpen button,....then you can manipulate the contrast and nrightness, change the color, magnify, yada, yada, yada, then you can take that photo asnd put it in PS-9 and do the same thing......the results are the same as what police and FBI use in whatever program they have,.....it's a NASA born program and not readily available to the public......however if you are clever, you can combine the afroe mentioned programs with a geometry recognition program and all of a sudden?.....Voilahhhhh! you're ah Nardist.

yeah, i know, i think the next time i go to hollywood i'll hit those guys on the head and take their button, 'twould indeed save alot of grief and trouble for me trying to focus and hold the camera steady and actually do what's needed to get a decent image before i print it... afterall photoshop, and even all those other programs arent a magic wand, but if i had a button like that i'd be magic, therefore very powerful and rich and i could rule the world...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah, its reely reel. I no coz I sore it on the tele.

So its gotta be dont it ?

It's not rubbish. Adobe has actually developed a lens and software system that can do just that.

http://www.physorg.com/news111141405.htm...

http://audioblog.fr/archives/2007/10/02/...

The rub is that the image needs to have been taken with their lens for the software to work on it.

So while not exactly like an NCIS episode, it is a step in that direction.