New Photoshop technology from Adobe will end blurry Bigfoot pics forever
Sneak Peek at the Crazy Image Deblurring Feature That May Appear in Photoshop
Will Adobe's new "deblurring" technology finally put an end to those blurry Bigfoot photos?
At the Adobe MAX 2011 event in LA last week, the company gave a sneak peek into an advanced Image Deblurring feature that may appear in an upcoming version of Photoshop. Provided with a blurred photograph, the feature uses advanced algorithms to calculate the camera movements that caused the blur, which allows the program to do a very accurate unblurring of the photograph. The video is a bit shaky and the quality isn’t the best, but judging from the audience’s reaction when the example photo is unblurred, the feature works extremely well and caused a lot of jaws to drop.
Gizmodo writes:
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.
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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[via: gizmodo.com]
I probably don't tell you this enough, but I love your blog! You seriously do BF justice. Everyone does complain about blurry shots and it's good to see they can be clarified now. I guess those hoaxers will have to work harder on better costumes.
ReplyDelete@Autumnforest exciting stuff right?
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be one of the coolest feature ever. Hopefully it can be used to debunk those blurry Bigfoot hoaxes out there.
2 bad no bigfoot researcher will be able to buy it...it'll be like $1200 or something...lol
ReplyDeleteYour blog really is the best one out there on the subject! This sounds awesome. You guys should also check out the Lytro camera which is set to unveil by the end of this year. When you take a picture it captures every field possible so you can go back later and focus the image anywhere in the photo. You may have blogged about this in the past, not sure, but it is definitely worth checking out.
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