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01-May-2006, 01:06 PM #1
Getting Rid of Blur With Photoshop 7
I had 5 pictures sent to me in email for our website that I cannot seem to adjust. They are full length body shots and I need them to be from the belt up. Everytime I crop them, they become a blurry mess. I am new to Photoshop and I have not been able to figure out how to fix it. I tried the Sharpen tool and the Unmask tool with no luck. Does anyone have a link to a good tutorial on doing this? I tried several that recommended using the Unmask tool, but I could not get it to work.
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01-May-2006, 01:45 PM #2
Cropping the pics should not mess them up ... unless they were poor resolutions before.

Which Photoshop ??
Can you attach a before and after Sample ??
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01-May-2006, 01:53 PM #3
Check the resolution of the original image before you do anything to it. Make sure you also save it in the same format and if it is compressed like a JPG make sure the compression is set to "large file" with the slider all the way to the left.
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Noyb,

The pics are available on the website listed in my signature. If you go to Teams/Varsity, then you can look at either of the kids with the last name Novak, Spence, Turner, or Waldron. Those are the 5 pics I need to crop and they were taken by a professional photographer with an expensive camera. I don't have an "after" pic posted on the site, as they were horrible. To see the size needed to be cropped to, look at any of the other kids links. Those were taken with my 3.2 ($300) camera. I guess more expensive is not always better.

Rockn,

I will give that a try as well. The pics were supposedly taken with a nice camera, but my 3.2 megapixel camera pics were way better.
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01-May-2006, 02:47 PM #5
Were you using the team picture? If so, part of the problem might be taking out one person, then increasing the image size. At 180dpi, there isn't a lit you can do with an image .6 " high.

For certain, you should save the image under a new name, then crop out the individual you want. Then try increasing the size. I've had very good luck, changing the dpi to 72, and then increasing the image size to a larger size. In this case, you can go to about 2.5X original. I was going to attach an example I did of one member, but the attachment feature here doesn't seem to work for me.

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I figured out I was doing the attachment thing wrong. You have to start at the place at the bottom. Well, I go to bed less stupid tonight.

Here's one member I did as I mentioned above. Then I used the polygon selection tool to isolate him from the background. Then I selected Inverse from the Selection menu, deleted all but the player, selected Feather of 0.5 pixel and used the Gradient tool for the background.

Hope this was some help.
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01-May-2006, 03:07 PM #7
The images are blurry to begin with and cropping them won't help much. The resolution is also pretty crappy at 180 PPI, but I am thinking the original wasn't that good to begin with and then resized to it's current size. If you have the original post it here.
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what kind of camera an what mega-pixels is the camera. u need to take the picture with the camera set at its highest pixel setting. then crop it then re-size the picture. that way it will not be blurry after resizing it. this pic of the back of my daughter was 2048x1536. i then croped it, then i resized it to157x200. doing it this way keeps it clear
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01-May-2006, 05:30 PM #9
Silly Me ... I thought you were only Cropping a little bit.
You said you received these Images via Email, so I suspect they were downsized to fit the email.
And, I'm not too sure if the Pic from the link hasn't been downsized even more.
What I got was only 540 pixels wide .. not enough to work with.

Any way you can get better scans from the source ??
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01-May-2006, 05:58 PM #10
How were the rest of the players waist up pictures done?

Why are those four not the same...

I will go out on a limb and say that this image...
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was not not generated from an image like this one...



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The five that are full length were taken by someone else and sent to me in email, I do not have the original. When I saw those, I decided I'd better try to get my own pics and I took the rest of the waist up photos with my 3.2 camera. I am trying to fix the 5 rather than retake them because the ones in question play on a different team than my son and it hard to get out to their games when my son has games everyday too. The season is almost over and I need to get them done - I guess I will just retake them with my camera.

Fait2,
The pics on their individual pages are the ones I need to fix - they did not come from the team picture.
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02-May-2006, 05:48 PM #12
Howdy coachdan32

You will need better quality images than the ones on the web site to have any hope of getting the quality waist up shots you took.

You need to either get the full size/quality images from whoever took them, or bite the bullet and take them yourself...

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02-May-2006, 06:53 PM #13
Buck 52 is right. But if these are just going on your web site, the 3.2 MP camera will do just fine. If you get in close, you won't have to crop much and they will look great. For sure, it is always better to reduce sizes than try to increase them. Even the best photo editor cannot really insert detail that isn't there. True some interpolation is possible, but it isn't really a solution.
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02-May-2006, 07:57 PM #14
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But if these are just going on your web site, the 3.2 MP camera will do just fine.
I believe it was already stated that the 3.2 camera took the rest of the pictures

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I took the rest of the waist up photos with my 3.2 camera.
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