Newbie help with blurry photo

[jeranimal]

Hello all
I am a new photoshop elements 4 user who is very eager to learn. I have a great picture that I need help touching up. If anyone has any suggestions, I would really really appreciate it. Thanks so much!

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1HUVuWeTAzgV1lqVT5bNuIp1pkiwJ

[Wendy]

Hi there ...

and welcome to the forum :)

Probably blurry images are the hardest ones to fix as there isn't really a way of doing it. About the best we can do is sharpen them and that gives an illusion of less blur.

Try Filter>Sharpen>Unsharpen Mask

Wendy

[Wendy]

Sorry about that I forgot to add the image and the settings ..

I did this one fairly quickly and used the settings 113, 2.8 and 1

Hope this helps ...

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1PskZFWVdPGQeWgCmob1ZtaZ0VZGm


Wendy

[Daviskw]

Here is another option;

Filter>other>highpass

Gray out all the color then set blend mode to overlay. just copy layer for more as needed the lower opacity for final adjustment.

Butch

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2033/1huvuwetazgv1lqvt5bnuip1pki7kv.th.jpg (http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1huvuwetazgv1lqvt5bnuip1pki7kv.jpg)

[kevq]

Hi,
Here's one I did using the clarity filter in the xero filters collection, free download at :-

http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk

Kev.

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5017/blurw4zo.th.jpg (http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blurw4zo.jpg)

[Wendy]

Actually considering how bad the blur is to begin with ... its looking quite good :)


Wendy

[jeranimal]

Thanks so much for everbody's help! I really appreciate it.

Next time, I'll give the waiter some tips on how to take a better picture.

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Oh I like that one ... it is such a shame about the photo as without the shake it would have made a really nice image :). Still at least its rescuable !!

Wendy