Adobe's Shake Reduction filter: Is anyone having success with this new filter in Photoshop CC? So far, in my tests, it seems to just create an over sharpened photo. I upgraded to CC...

imageal Loc: Ocala, FL

Is anyone having success with this new filter in Photoshop CC? So far, in my tests, it seems to just create an over sharpened photo. I upgraded to CC primarily because I hoped to salvage some shots with camera shake taken from a moving tour bus on an Alaska trip. If you are using it, what slider settings do you find most effective? Any advise short of reshooting (which I'd love to do) would be appreciated.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

You can salvage slight blur with that, but if you have a lot of blur due to shake in the picture, even that filter can't save it! (Even today, "get it right in camera", is still the best bet).

mdorn Loc: Portland, OR

imageal wrote:

Is anyone having success with this new filter in Photoshop CC? So far, in my tests, it seems to just create an over sharpened photo. I upgraded to CC primarily because I hoped to salvage some shots with camera shake taken from a moving tour bus on an Alaska trip. If you are using it, what slider settings do you find most effective? Any advise short of reshooting (which I'd love to do) would be appreciated.

Sorry, no good advice from me, but I just have to make a comment about all these tweaks and photo enhancing features of Photoshop. Frankly, I think they are creating a monster in some of us. We rely on PS to fix or mask our inability to take calculated thoughtful photos. Sure, we would all love to fix a bad photo that we cherish (if it had only been in focus), but it is what it is. To me, PS is a tool to make a great photo print worthy. I don't use PS to fix my "bad" shots. The bad shots go right into the trash can where they belong. Does it hurt sometimes to put them there, you bet---memories cannot be recreated in the same way.

CaptainC Loc: Colorado, south of Denver

I tried it on an image I took with a too-low shutter speed with a 20mm lens. The shake was not awful, but just barely noticeable. I found the shake reduction worked really well. The over sharpened look can be mitigated by removing the effect from less important areas. Keep it on the eyes or area where sharpness matters and remove it from the rest.

Not a cure for bad technique, but for those images with small movement, it seems quite good.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

CaptainC wrote:

I tried it on an image I took with a too-low shutter speed with a 20mm lens. The shake was not awful, but just barely noticeable. I found the shake reduction worked really well. The over sharpened look can be mitigated by removing the effect from less important areas. Keep it on the eyes or area where sharpness matters and remove it from the rest.

Not a cure for bad technique, but for those images with small movement, it seems quite good.

Agree

Musket Loc: ArtBallin'

Its a "fix". Nothing I can or will use for production shots. Good for fixing snapshots. All the magical unicorns in the world cannot fix a badly taken photo.

Ive used it to fix a couple of blurry snapshots but its nothing that is going to take the place of proper shooting techniques.

musickna Loc: St. Louis

CaptainC wrote:

I tried it on an image I took with a too-low shutter speed with a 20mm lens. The shake was not awful, but just barely noticeable. I found the shake reduction worked really well. The over sharpened look can be mitigated by removing the effect from less important areas. Keep it on the eyes or area where sharpness matters and remove it from the rest.

Not a cure for bad technique, but for those images with small movement, it seems quite good.

:thumbup: That's my experience too. It does not work miracles for badly blurred photos.

imageal Loc: Ocala, FL

speters wrote:

You can salvage slight blur with that, but if you have a lot of blur due to shake in the picture, even that filter can't save it! (Even today, "get it right in camera", is still the best bet).

Agreed! I did get a lot of great shots on our trip but there were a few landscapes that were under far less than ideal conditions (taken while traveling on a dirt road from a moving bus). I used proper technique, bumped the ISO, shutter priority, even completely manual. Some preferred shots have some blur and those few are the ones I would like to "salvage" if possible.

imageal Loc: Ocala, FL

CaptainC wrote:

I tried it on an image I took with a too-low shutter speed with a 20mm lens. The shake was not awful, but just barely noticeable. I found the shake reduction worked really well. The over sharpened look can be mitigated by removing the effect from less important areas. Keep it on the eyes or area where sharpness matters and remove it from the rest.

Not a cure for bad technique, but for those images with small movement, it seems quite good.

Thanks for the comment. I'll try selective removal.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

Tonight I attended an meetup demonstration at Adobe HQ in San Jose. The speaker and demonstrator was Bryan Hughes of Adobe.

One of the items he covered was this new filter. Basically, it works best with camera shake, as PS looks for the edge to ghost edge distance and direction. The algorithm is based on that information being found, it does not work well with action blur or out of focus files.

The meeting can be seen here:

http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p89sr8odu70/

imageal Loc: Ocala, FL

jdubu wrote:

Tonight I attended an meetup demonstration at Adobe HQ in San Jose. The speaker and demonstrator was Bryan Hughes of Adobe.

One of the items he covered was this new filter. Basically, it works best with camera shake, as PS looks for the edge to ghost edge distance and direction. The algorithm is based on that information being found, it does not work well with action blur or out of focus files.

The meeting can be seen here:
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p89sr8odu70/

Thanks for the link. Very good presentation.

CaptainC Loc: Colorado, south of Denver

jdubu wrote:

Tonight I attended an meetup demonstration at Adobe HQ in San Jose. The speaker and demonstrator was Bryan Hughes of Adobe.

One of the items he covered was this new filter. Basically, it works best with camera shake, as PS looks for the edge to ghost edge distance and direction. The algorithm is based on that information being found, it does not work well with action blur or out of focus files.

The meeting can be seen here:

http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p89sr8odu70/

Excellent overview of CC. So does Gimp do Content Aware Scale, smart filters, Content Aware Move, have a Camera Raw equivalent built in as a filter? Perspective Warp? On and on....

I think Gimp is a great fall-back for those who have their panties in a twist over the whole Cloud thing, but to say Gimp can do what PHotoshop CC can do is a real stretch. But of course I would agree that most people do not need all the cool features that are in Photoshop.

Photoshop is still the standard.