Adobe demo's new "deblurring" feature

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Surprised no one's posted this yet.

Photoshop will end blurry pics forever

A blurred image is the worst. And no matter how steady you think your hand is, it can be easy to ruin a shot. Luckily, Adobe's cooking up a Photoshop feature that'll automatically eliminate blur. You won't believe your eyes.
The motion blur-killer, demoed at the recent Adobe MAX 2011 conference, is experimental at this point. The Photoshop rep on stage won't say when it'll be implemented—only that they're working on it for some feature version. But it's absolutely incredible. With only a few clicks, a blurry image is quickly analyzed, allowed Photoshop to discern exactly how the image was messed up. That is to say, if you accidentally moved your hand slightly to the right and down while the shutter snapped, it'll pick that up. And then it reverses it—and that's the totally magical part.
It doesn't seem possible, but as if it's completely altering reality, the Photoshop deblurring compensates for the extraneous motion and gives you a completely crisp picture. It works on text too. Keep in mind that this won't fix your out of focus images—ones where you just have your lens set incorrectly—but works against motion blur. The potential for this is incredibly huge: no more ruined personal photos, and, hey, maybe we'll see the death of stupid blurry "leaked" gadget shots.
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Nice, thanks for the headsup.

Here is a video to complement the article :)

[video=youtube;xxjiQoTp864]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjiQoTp864[/video]
 
Deconvolution, not exactly new or all that amazing in itself. The impressive part is that it appears to calculate the correct matrix and masks to use automatically.
 
So basically we can all go out and buy cr@p lenses and use PP to fix the bugger-ups.
 
I searched and found Topaz software which does the same thing - and downloaded the trial.

Unless Adobe is far, far better - I wouldn't waste my money
 
Dolby said:
I searched and found Topaz software which does the same thing - and downloaded the trial.

Unless Adobe is far, far better - I wouldn't waste my money
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That may be true but if you are planning on purchasing the new adobe, then it may come with it instead of buying another software to do it!
 
For the price that Adobe CS costs until it makes me coffee, cleans my house and walks my dogs I wont be using it.
I am assuming that you guys will pay for adobe CS6 when its out ...
 
Although this would certainly be am amazing feature its a bit disconcerting to find out that there is an unblurry original of one of their "blurred" shots that they "fixed":
Original:
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Adobe's "fix":
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Apparently it was "synthetically blurred" and then deblurred. Would be interesting to see this tech applied in real life situations, I imagine it would be somewhat underwhelming.
 
SiriS said:
Apparently it was "synthetically blurred" and then deblurred. Would be interesting to see this tech applied in real life situations, I imagine it would be somewhat underwhelming.
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lol. this filter is perfect for that situation where you used motion blur and ran out of undo's.
 
Bet we will see similar tech embedded into the cameras of the future.
 
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