{"id":40778,"date":"2025-04-28T07:32:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=40778"},"modified":"2025-04-28T07:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:32:46","slug":"topaz-labs-image-unblur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2025\/04\/28\/topaz-labs-image-unblur\/","title":{"rendered":"Topaz Labs Image Unblur"},"content":{"rendered":"

It actually works.<\/I><\/p>\n

I’m not much one for post processing. Maybe a touch on the Highlights and Shadows sliders and a correction of a leaning vertical or two, but that’s pretty much it. Mostly I’m of the set that believes you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.<\/p>\n

But this is an image I rather liked for the girl’s intensely watchful expression and it was a real grab shot. No time to think, just point and click. And the result was a blurred image owing to camera motion.<\/p>\n

Here it is after processing in Topaz Labs Image Unblur<\/a>:<\/p>\n


\nThe deblurred image.<\/I><\/center><\/p>\n

In addition to passing the image through the web-based Topaz app (which has jumped on the ‘add AI to anything to make it sexier’ bandwagon) I added Sharpening=113 in LRc. The result, shown in this after and before 100% pixel peeping comparison in LRc is fairly remarkable, with artifacts at a minimum:<\/p>\n


\nAfter and before.<\/I><\/center><\/p>\n

Topaz gives you 20 freebies but for the life of me I cannot figure out the pricing thereafter. Still, 20 is likely to last me a few years …. even if encroaching age points to more blurred images!<\/p>\n

Leica M10, 35mm Canon LTM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It actually works. I’m not much one for post processing. Maybe a touch on the Highlights and Shadows sliders and a correction of a leaning vertical or two, but that’s pretty much it. Mostly I’m of the set that believes you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. But this is an … Continue reading Topaz Labs Image Unblur<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs","category-sofware","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40784,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40778\/revisions\/40784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}