Can this be saved? I took this photo of my neighbors dog and she wants to print it in an 8x10 but it's out of focus. I have played in PS using the Sharpen/Motion Blur tools but I just...

CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

I took this photo of my neighbors dog and she wants to print it in an 8x10 but it's out of focus. I have played in PS using the Sharpen/Motion Blur tools but I just can't seem to get it to look right.

Does anyone have any tricks that I could try? I am not very good at post processing in PS but want to learn.

Thanks
Cindy

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SWFeral Loc: SWNM

Maybe you should just soften it more, lighten it, make it more high-key and dreamy. I dunno. Make it look like it's supposed to be a bit blurry...?

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Hopefully somebody will have some ideas. I have never found a way to correct focus.

CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

SWFeral wrote:

Maybe you should just soften it more, lighten it, make it more high-key and dreamy. I dunno. Make it look like it's supposed to be a bit blurry...?

That's and idea...didn't think about that....will give it a try.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

I ran your tif through Topaz for this, Cindy.

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CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

UTMike wrote:

I ran your tif through Topaz for this, Cindy.

That looks pretty good! I have the denoise but was this with the sharpen program?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

You'll probably have more luck and a better final result by returning and reshooting using exposure parameters more appropriate to a moving subject. You don't need f/11, try f/8. Definitely use a faster shutter, say at 1/500 sec. Let the ISO float as needed.

Use the camera's continuous AF, shooting in a continuous burst with a group of AF points following the animal's eyes / face.

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NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

UTMike wrote:

I ran your tif through Topaz for this, Cindy.

Looks like you improved it quite a bit

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Try selecting just the face, exclude the ears and edges of the head. Apply a feather of around 2 pixels (right click for option). Now apply a high pass filter at around 2 pixels (Filter, Other, High Pass). Make the layer blending mode Overlay. This should help the nose and eye areas which are the critical part of this shot.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

CindyHouk wrote:

I took this photo of my neighbors dog and she wants to print it in an 8x10 but it's out of focus. I have played in PS using the Sharpen/Motion Blur tools but I just can't seem to get it to look right.

Does anyone have any tricks that I could try? I am not very good at post processing in PS but want to learn.

Thanks
Cindy

Cindy
See if this is any better.
Smile (I hope),
JimmyT Sends

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CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

CHG_CANON wrote:

You'll probably have more luck and a better final result by returning and reshooting using exposure parameters more appropriate to a moving subject. You don't need f/11, try f/8. Definitely use a faster shutter, say at 1/500 sec. Let the ISO float as needed.

Use the camera's continuous AF, shooting in a continuous burst with a group of AF points following the animal's eyes / face.

I agree....but wanted to learn more post processing skills and thought this would be a good learning shot. Plus for some reason she really wants to print this one. I will be shooting the dogs again sometime...maybe when it warms up a bit!!

CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

magnetoman wrote:

Try selecting just the face, exclude the ears and edges of the head. Apply a feather of around 2 pixels (right click for option). Now apply a high pass filter at around 2 pixels (Filter, Other, High Pass). Make the layer blending mode Overlay. This should help the nose and eye areas which are the critical part of this shot.

I will give that a try and see how I do....thanks! I haven't used the High pass filter yet, so this will be a good learning experience...thank you for posting the steps!

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

CindyHouk wrote:

I agree....but wanted to learn more post processing skills and thought this would be a good learning shot. Plus for some reason she really wants to print this one. I will be shooting the dogs again sometime...maybe when it warms up a bit!!

Print this one. Replace it with a better one when available.

CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

Jimmy T wrote:

Cindy
See if this is any better.
Smile (I hope),
JimmyT Sends

Nice...yes that is better than mine....can you explain how you accomplished this so I can try and recreate?

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

One more.