big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Hi as anybody used a program called Blurity? Supposed to recover really blurred images by making them sharp. Cheers in advance dave

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

I could keep that software busy!

rocketride Loc: Upstate NY

More like it can sharpen slightly blurry images. The kind of image clarification you see on CSI or NCIs, etc. is beyond it. (AFAIK, it is beyond reality.)

RicknJude Loc: Quebec, Canada

Download it and give it a test. I just did. Now I have to find a blurry pic. :D

cthahn

Never heard of it. Learn how to take good pictures and you will have no need for this program.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Hi cthahn why I am inquiring has anybody used this soft ware, my thing is wildlife photography sometimes the images are just not quite there. The light has dropped off (lenses not fast enough) ,the action has come to quickly , unexpected ! It annoys me when I get say a King fisher with a fish in its mouth and its not just there. I presume you have never heard of the soft ware also ?Found it advertised on Cambridge in colour .

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

No amount of software will fix an image that was blurry out of the camera. I expect that software that claims to fix "really blurry" images would introduce an unacceptable amount of artifact in the process.

UtahBob Loc: Southern NJ

I was intrigued by the claims of this program but if you take a hard look at the use manual you'll see a description of what it claims to be able to do and what it is not really going to be able to accomplish well.

Big negative is current version only takes a jpg or png. Future pro version will take a tiff but at a pretty steep price.

I was hoping that it could perhaps work some magic on hyperfocal focus mistakes but it really is meant to only work on images that have a consistent misfocus in the entire image. Maybe you could blend the pre and post images in photoshop to remove excess "deblurring" in the in-focus areas of the original image.

I tried it with an image taken from a vehicle with shake and i couldn't get it to work although that type of problem is one of the highlights of what the program can do. Just couldn't do anything with that image no matter how I tried.

The only image I could make work was a bird in flight that was slightly soft most likely focus rather than motion blur. I thought Blurity made the image look better than my try using sharpening in LR4 but because I was starting with a jpg for blurity, I did have artifacts that were objectionable but only if I started pixel peeping at say 200% and beyond. So for birds, I'd say you might make it work but only if you could input Tiff otherwise with jpg you'd want to crop and then use Blurity rather than use Blurity and then crop as the jpg artifacts will be more evident.

Price is definitely the problem. Seems like they've priced it as if it is a cure all and maybe it is if you can figure out how to make it work. I think it has a steep learning curve from playing around for an hour.

As others noted, you have to try it for yourself.

Picdude Loc: Ohio

Got it, tried it, the results were not as impressive as their demo. I think it won't do bad on a shot with slight focus problems or motion blur (operative word slight), but I was never able to get it to perform much better than what I can get with sharpening in Photoshop and clarity in ACR. Just my opinion.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Cheers for that !Looks like back to unsharpen mask and blur tool on photoshop.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Cheers Bob for your assessment!

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Cheers Erik , back to photoshop!

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Ta RicknJudy!

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Thanks for your reply.

big d Loc: Rossendale Lancashire

Me too Tradio , cheers