Can this image be "fixed?"

[aragona]

Hi - I would really appreciate some help. I took this image at today's graduation ceremony and it is blurry.

Can anyone help me salvage it? I don't really know how to use photoshop very well and have made no progress.



Thanks so much.

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[inspire]

you can look up in the post production of this website... if not mistaken there is a How To Sharpen Photos tutorial for photoshop... hope you can salvage it...

[Nicole]

I just moved your post over to the post-processing and printing section where most people ask for help with processing their photos.

It's always difficult to sharpen shots when they're out of focus, but you can try using High Pass Sharpening. It won't bring it all into focus, but it will help make at least the woman on the right look more in focus.

[kencaleno]

You cannot sharpen an out of focus image-you can resize image to a smaller dimension,then sharpen and hope for the best-but you will never get it perfect-What follows is the best I could do-I resized image to 350 pixels on longest side,and used this method to sharpen:

Ctrl+J
Unsharp mask amount 18%
Radius 40 pxls
Threshold 0
Unsharp mask amount 150%
Radius 0.3 pxls
Threshold 0
Edit> fade Unsharp mask 100% Darken
Unsharp mask amount 150%
Radius 0.3 pxls
Threshold 0
Edit> fade Unsharp mask 50% Lighten

Ken

[pcr1968]

I't is really hard to correct pics that are like this, Here is a sample using a few different sharpening proccesses, however the downside is that you end up with some thing that resembles more of a painting than a photo.

This might not be a downside if you just want a nice pic for memories.

Another possible way is to combine photos. If you took more than just that pics you might have one that is sharper that you could use to clone certain areas such as the face of the woman of the left. Hope that helps abit.

All the Best
Pete