How to Unblur a Picture in Photoshop – Five Easy Steps

October 21, 2009

in Photoshop,Tips,Tutorials

There are many times picture gets blurred because something was moving really fast or because of camera shaking. We are not professional photographers, so sharpening the blurry image is worth a shot. Softwares like photoshop helps us to make the blurry images sharp. Lets see how to unblur a picture in photoshop – Simple easy 5 steps.


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Step 1 – Open your Photoshop – Select File > Open > Chose your blurry image

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Step 2 – Duplicate the background layer by hitting CTRL+J

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Step 3 – Select Filter > Other > High Pass – If you set it really high, the image will become grainy. I set mine to 10 pixels.

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Step 4 – Now Set the blending mode of the layer to Hard Light and adjust the Opacity to whatever you think makes the image look best. Default 50% for the better results.

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Step 5 – Wow!! You’re done!!

Hopefully, this simple method can make your blurry images clearer and sharper! Enjoy!

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1 Tejaswini October 22, 2009 at 11:52 am

Oh great, i would definitely give a try :) most of the times, when i am on bike, i take such kind of snaps, that are too blurred. hope I sort those pictures out. thanks for sharing

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2 Srivathsan GK October 22, 2009 at 1:39 pm

@Tejaswini – HEY!! Thank you! Welcome to Steal-Ideas (-:

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3 Arun October 23, 2009 at 2:55 pm

great bro

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4 Srivathsan GK October 23, 2009 at 2:56 pm

@Arun – Thankyou Man!! GIve a try!!

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5 Anonymous February 2, 2010 at 9:23 pm

Thanks!

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6 Café Atômico February 3, 2010 at 1:07 am

Beleza, mano. Me ajudou muito!

Great, dude! It really helped me

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7 Pallab May 7, 2010 at 3:44 pm

Would have loved to see the end result too.

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8 Real January 25, 2011 at 4:03 am

Ok if your magic blurr fixer is legit, why do you not post the results?

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9 Josh June 19, 2011 at 2:49 pm

Thanks! This actually helped a lot with my profile picture… :)

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10 Anonymous October 14, 2011 at 3:29 pm

This is just sharpening. Sharpening is not ‘unblurring’. No results because this image would probably look worse afterwards.

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11 MaskFD October 23, 2011 at 5:25 pm

Thank you very much, that was helpful.

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