Monkey See...Monkey Not Do

[jclguru]

Anyone have any ideas on how I could possibly fix this photo enough
to take peoples' mind off the fact that its so blurry? Maybe some
sort of Photoshop plugin?

I did try a center spot plugin and usm on the face only, but I'm not
to happy with it.

I'm just mad at myself cause of all the photos I took from behind glass,
this is the only one that turned out like it did...which of course, would
be the one I love the most.

Doug

[Vikki]

One trick for blurry images, is to blur the background.
For this version, I adjusted the shadows and highlights, blurred the darkened background. I also sharpened the face.
Using layer masks, I combined the dark blurry image with the sharped one, and masked out the face.
I can't say that it looks significantly sharper, but I think the seeing the entire face helps.

[Panpan]

I used smart sharpen in PS. Reducing motion blur between munus 30 to 60 degrees seems to work. I also reduced lens blur on the dark part of the face. It seems that darker areas can be sharpened more aggressively.

I finished by reducing the color noise introduced by the sharpening and by lightening the face.

Frankly, sharpening may degrade quality too much. You might be happier with the original.

[Kraellin]

jclguru,

actually, it's not all that blurry. i've seen a lot worse. i simply doubled the image size first, then ran a sharpen more followed by a jpeg artifact reducer at high 15. seemed fine. took about 3 minutes.

Craig

[berwin]

Used Unshake default setting first and FocusMagic @ 2px after.
Shadow mask @ Screen 72%.
Masked back the background from the base layer.