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The extent of removed noise is displayed in the lower status bar of the dialog ( Noise Removed=…%).

No: prevents filtering even by high Blur Width values.

By Blur Width values of 4 and above, this option becomes available and can be used to reduce noise as follows: The option can also be used to remove Dust and Scratches from scanned paper photos. Sharpening may increase the existing noise level of the photo, and thus it can produce an unpleasantly grainy image. A slider would have been nice for even more accurate control, but the scale from 0 to 300% (in steps of 25%) will have to suffice. Try increasing the value in steps of 1, and adjusting the other settings accordingly.Īmount lets you specify the extent of sharpening as a percentage. As it could be expected, it produced an excessive sharpening that ruined the existing details of the photo.

The next illustration shows the same photo part with a Blur Width value of 6, telling the plugin that the photo is seriously blurred. We’ve set it to 1 for this soft photo to treat the finer details nicely.

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Here are a few examples on how to use Blur Width. A downsized digital photo for Web publishing usually requires a value of 1 to 2. Using higher values is recommended for heavier blurring, but, as explained above, you shouldn’t have great expectations in such cases. The lower the value, the smaller details can be sharpened. Obviously, a soft, noiseless digital photo needs different treatment than a heavily grainy paper photo.īlur Width lets you specify the extent of blurring. The plugin does the sharpening according to this selection. Image Source lets you specify whether the photo has been taken with a digital or a traditional camera, a DV cam, perhaps scanned from Newspaper or from an old, battered ( Forensic) photograph. You have four controls in total to deal with. Three or four settings, and an accurate detail-emphasizing ability is all you really need, and Focus Magic does have this potential. There are numerous sharpening plugins but most of them tends to throw out the baby with the bath water: they usually offer several dozens of different options but this means that after a certain time you won’t be bothered with the regiments of sliders, check boxes and dropdowns.

You shouldn’t try sharpening on such photos.įocus Magic’s most taking characteristic is the strife for simplicity. The right-side photo part is blurred.ĭetails are gone for good, which means sharpening will create rough or false edges and details. This picture is perfectly fit for sharpening in post-production. Contrast differences of the edges are more difficult to get, but the details are still nicely distinguishable. The middle picture is soft, slightly blurred. Edges have contrast, details are easily visible. So what’s the difference between sharp, soft and blurred? If the focus is completely messed up or the photo is totally blurred, post-production won’t do much good. If your camera (or its user) has set an incorrect focus, but the details are preserved in the photo, it is time to use a sharpening filter or plugin. Sharpening photos (Fix Out-of-focus Blur)

Fix Out-of-focus Blur – Simple sharpening.

Fix Motion Blur – Motion blur reduction.

One is sharpening and the other is motion blur reduction.Ĭlick Filter/Focus Magic in Photoshop’s menu to activate the plugin that offers two choices: This offers two features, and we think you’ll be satisfied with both. But let us keep our eyes on the Photoshop plugin instead. In this application, you can choose from five different filters, each responsible for sharpening and blurring.

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The plugin can be started after the trial period has expired, but the results cannot be saved.Īfter installing, you don’t only get a Photoshop plugin, but also a separately usable picture sharpening application.

The trial version is unlimited in its functionality but unfortunately expires after 10 uses.

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The trial version of Focus Magic can be downloaded free of charge from the developer’s website, and the first good news is that it’s only 4.4MB. This is how we stumbled upon Focus Magic, which is a real 2-in-1 solution instead of a simple “sharpen” plugin. Although Photoshop really offers a broad range of sharpening tools-especially since the introduction of Smart Sharpen-we took a glance around slightly different, alternative sharpening solutions.