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Question: Getting rid of blurr on photo's!?
I've been emailed some photo's and some of them are a little blurred, is there a program that I can download to use to get rid if it and to see the picture perfect!? Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Unfortunately, blur is one thing that cannot be corrected in photo editing software!. NO software can do this, regardless of what anyone may tell you!. A blurred digital photo is comprised of pixels that have captured and recorded this off focus information as correct!. Software cannot make something out of nothing!. It all thinks this is a perfect photo!. There is no "hidden" sharpness there to "find"!. Software cannot focus your camera for you!. It would be the same as taking a photo of a person with a piece of cardboard over their face, then expecting photo editing software to be able to remove the cardboard and display the face!. It just does not work that way!. The photo is what it is!. Remove the cardboard and there is nothing there!.!.!. there is no face hiding behind the cardboard in the photo!. Same with a blurred photo!.!.!. there is no sharpness there, and software is not going to magically create it!.

Post editing software is not the end all, cure all for all poorly taken photos!. It is still, and always will be, important to get the photo correct in the camera in the beginning!. Software can help improve some things and even create the illusion of more sharpness!.!.!. BUT!.!.!. there still has to be good, basic, sharp image data to begin with!.

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it depends on what the photo is like!. if it's not too ridiculously blurry, you might be able to fix it!.

there are tools in programs like photoshop called "sharpen"!. in photoshop, it's under the "filters" section on the top!. it doesn't actually take away the blur!. rather, it plays around with the contrast and lighting in the picture to give the illusion that the blur has been removed!. you can download gimp from the net!. (type in "gimp" into any search engine and it should be one of the first few links on the list!.) it's an open-source (ie, free) software program that works like photoshop!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well, it won't make ur picture perfect, and a lot of detail will be lost, but you can use the sharpen tool at photoshop and it does help - look at this picture http://www!.focusmagic!.com/images/agcar1!.!.!.!.

It will look choppy when u sharpen it, but at least it's not as blurry as before!. If you send me the photo, I can sharpen it for you!. =)Www@QuestionHome@Com

If it is only a very slight blur, then use the sharpen tool in picasa2!.
1 or 2 clicks might help it a bit!.

Its worth a try!. You have nothing to lose, and picasa is a free download from google!.

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it's extremly difficult to rectify a blurry immage!. about the only thing that you can do is enhance it, which just makes things worse!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

sorry but thats one thing you cannot rectify!. if a photos is blurred then there is no way of correcting this!. I've been taking photos for over 30 years by the way!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Nope- cannot fix blurry out of focus photos with photo shop or any other such program!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

buy adobe photoshop it's great for that stuffWww@QuestionHome@Com