{"id":651195,"date":"2013-04-08T19:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=141791"},"modified":"2013-04-08T19:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:48:01","slug":"is-your-photo-out-of-focus-try-smartdeblur-2-0-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651195","title":{"rendered":"Is your photo out-of-focus? Try SmartDeblur 2.0 beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Vladimir Yuzhikov has released the first beta of\u00a0SmartDeblur 2.0<\/a>, a powerful tool for recovering data from blurred images.<\/p>\n

Top of the new features list is an \u201cauto-detect blur\u201d option, which allows the program to automatically figure out whether your image is suffering from motion, Gaussian, or just plain old out-of-focus blur, and perform the appropriate corrections.<\/p>\n

And as a result, there\u2019s no need to try and guess this yourself (although you can manually choose a blur type, if appropriate) — just open an image, click \u201cAnalyze Blur\u201d, and within two or three minutes you\u2019ll be presented with the results.<\/p>\n

As with the previous edition, SmartDeblur 2.0 beta comes with a sample image to illustrate its capabilities — and they really can be spectacular. It\u2019s just astonishing how much detail can be recovered in some cases (it\u2019s much more than basic sharpening).<\/p>\n

We did also find many images where the first pass delivered terrible results, but there is something else you can try. If you\u2019re trying to highlight one element in particular — a person standing against a wall, say — then click and drag on the image to draw a rectangle around them, and then click \u201cAnalyze Blur\u201d. SmartDeblur then restricts its checks to the area you\u2019ve highlighted, and in our tests this frequently made a very great difference.<\/p>\n

There is also a down side to the new build, unfortunately. Yuzhikov says the program has been rewritten to use \u201cfreely available libraries\u201d, and because of this \u201cperformance is several times slower than our internal version\u201d. He hopes to improve this in future, but in the meantime, imported images will by default be resized to 1,000 pixels on their largest side (although it you\u2019re the patient type, you can still increase the limit via\u00a0SmartDeblur\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0settings).<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Olaru Radian-Alexandru<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

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Vladimir Yuzhikov has released the first beta of\u00a0SmartDeblur 2.0, a powerful tool for recovering data from blurred images. Top of the new features list is an \u201cauto-detect blur\u201d option, which allows the program to automatically figure out whether your image is suffering from motion, Gaussian, or just plain old out-of-focus blur, and perform the appropriate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}