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May
23

Photoshop tip: Restore blurred imagery

by Steve Jenkins

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EVERYONE KNOWS THAT hi-res stock can be costly. However, you may find a great free image, only to see it’s suffering from blur due to a lower resolution. So here’s a handy tip that’ll improve your images. Begin by duplicating your image. Select Filter> Other>High Pass and apply a two-pixel Radius. Set this duplicated layer’s Blend Mode to Vivid Light. Now duplicate the second layer and change the Blend Mode to Color, decreasing the Opacity to around 30%. Create a New Layer and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E, merging all. Select Filter>Other>High Pass, once more applying a two-pixel Radius. Set this layer to an Overlay Blend Mode. Create a new layer and again merge all. Select Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and apply a five-pixel Radius. Press Ctrl+I to invert the layer, and apply a 50% Opacity Soft Light Blend Mode. Once again create a new layer, merging all. Title this
layer ‘Unsharp Mask’. Select Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask and apply a 45% Amount, 70 pixel Radius and ten-level Threshold. Duplicate this layer, renaming it ‘Surface Blur’. Select Filter>Blur>Surface Blur and apply
a ten-pixel Radius and ten-level Threshold. Reduce the layer Opacity to 60% and Fill to 80%.

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  • Chanson Jon said:

    it’s useful
    thanks!!!

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  • Nikolai said:

    Handy tips. Thanks.

    Please use paragraphs or bullet points though :)

    See: What makes a successful blog? for example.

  • Ben said:

    @Nikolai Here you are:

    EVERYONE KNOWS THAT hi-res stock can be costly. However, you may find a great free image, only to see it’s suffering from blur due to a lower resolution. So here’s a handy tip that’ll improve your images.

    Begin by duplicating your image.

    Select Filter> Other>High Pass and apply a two-pixel Radius. Set this duplicated layer’s Blend Mode to Vivid Light.

    Now duplicate the second layer and change the Blend Mode to Color, decreasing the Opacity to around 30%.

    Create a New Layer and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E, merging all.

    Select Filter>Other>High Pass, once more applying a two-pixel Radius. Set this layer to an Overlay Blend Mode. Create a new layer and again merge all.

    Select Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and apply a five-pixel Radius. Press Ctrl+I to invert the layer, and apply a 50% Opacity Soft Light Blend Mode. Once again create a new layer, merging all. Title this
    layer ‘Unsharp Mask’.

    Select Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask and apply a 45% Amount, 70 pixel Radius and ten-level Threshold. Duplicate this layer, renaming it ‘Surface Blur’. Select Filter>Blur>Surface Blur and apply
    a ten-pixel Radius and ten-level Threshold.

    Reduce the layer Opacity to 60% and Fill to 80%.

  • Morpheus said:

    hi guys,
    im new here..i want to know is it possible to restore the image which was blurred using Photoshop and by accident saved in the original pic and now i dnt have any copy also. Could some one please help me to restore that pic into old stage. Kindly send me ur suggestions to a.morph91@gmail.com please.
    Thanks.

    Morpheus

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