Image Help - - HELP!!!!PLEASE!!!! Blurry pic

jonathanmorris8 · #1 09-22-2005, 07:17 AM

I have a fishing picture that is very far away of a marlin jumping. When I blow the pic up it gets very blurry. Is there anything I can do with this to blow the picture up and clear it up also? I'm not very familiar with my options...Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am attaching the pic.

bartist · #2 09-22-2005, 07:37 AM

Hi,

I opened the marlin pic in photoshop and what I got was a 4.75" x 5.5" pic on a 29" x 21.5" white background for a file size of 9Mb. What resources do you have? Photoshop etc.? Did you scan it, and how? Most of the 9Mb is being used by the white background. Can you scan just the pic in?

bartist

jonathanmorris8 · #3 09-22-2005, 08:04 AM

I posted the pic but it said it was too big so I used photoshop to crop it. How should I just reduce the size of the pic? The original is over 600 KB.

bartist · #4 09-22-2005, 08:18 AM

Hello again,

Scan you photo in original size.
Open in photoshop. Resize. I usually use 6" x 4" @100 dpi for upload.
Go to file..save for web.. on the top left go to 4up..on the right side of your screen beloe the "Done" bar, click on the black arrow pointing to the right.. select "optimize to file size". enter 100k. select the image closest to 100k (should be about 99.xx) and save. Now you can upload.

bartist

jonathanmorris8 · #5 09-22-2005, 08:19 AM

I will give it a shot...I actually have 4 images that are all blurry. One needs to be blown up.

jonathanmorris8 · #6 09-22-2005, 08:22 AM

http://images.snapfish.com/344%3A5%3...4%3C8638nu0mrj

testing a link...

jonathanmorris8 · #7 09-22-2005, 08:24 AM

seems to work..let me put the 3 others on here

http://images.snapfish.com/344%3A5%3...%3A5%3B7ot1lsi

http://images.snapfish.com/344%3A5%3...5%3B9545ot1lsi

http://images.snapfish.com/344%3A5%3...3B96%3A5nu0mrj

Can you get to them using these links?

Cassidy · #8 09-22-2005, 09:02 AM

Don't know how much better this will appear on low res screen shot however, converted to lab and ran an unsharp mask on the lightness layer and then converted back to rgb and copied the layer and ran a highpass filter over it in overlay mode.

jonathanmorris8 · #9 09-22-2005, 10:34 AM

Thank you so much...Any chance of doing the other 3? I really appreciate all this help. This was my first marlin so these pics mean a lot to me.

Kraellin · #10 09-22-2005, 02:16 PM

now, quite honestly, i think this is wrong; but, i did manage to get this result on one of my de-blurring programs. like i say, it may just be a fluke, since looking at the other pics you posted doesnt seem to match up with the marlin there. but, am posting it anyways.

Craig

edit: doubled the size for easier viewing

bartist · #11 09-22-2005, 02:21 PM

Jon

Just curious, Who took the pic? what kind of camera & the settings?
I can imagine your excitement and getting your first marlin. For such an occasion, I personally would have had a decent camera and would have been very familiar with action shot settings. Your objective should be to take shots that need no repair or enhancement. BTW, how big was it & how much did it weigh? How long did it take you to land him.

regards,
bartist

Cassidy · #12 09-23-2005, 09:19 AM

Amazing Craig, no way I can get that sort of detail from the original photo

jonathanmorris8 · #13 09-23-2005, 10:47 AM

The picture that looks far away was actually my first marlin. The picture was taken with my digital camera. The other 3 pics that dont match are of a blue marlin that we caught over the weekend. I took it with a disposable camera. We were not expecting to catch a marlin so that is all i had with me. The white marlin went about 85lbs the blue marlin from this weekend went about 140lbs.

Kraellin · #14 09-23-2005, 12:24 PM

thanks cassidy. in all honesty i'm not sure this wasnt just one of those happy oddities as opposed to a real fix. so, i'm not real sure of the veracity of the thing. i used the program 'Unshake', which is a java based de-blur program. i set it on 'portrait', 'normal' and about 5-10 to get a still blurred image of the marlin. but, there was enough suggestion in what came up to warrant some retouching on my part to get that final image. but i certainly wouldnt swear that's how it really shld look.

but i'll let you be the judge. the attached is how it came out of Unshake without any other retouching.

Craig

philbach · #15 09-24-2005, 03:50 AM

Well err I cheated a bit on this one.