There may be a large number of situations that force us to try to find applications or tools that correct those photos that are badly taken and that later, are shown with a great level of blur. Suppose for a moment that you have taken a photograph of a vehicle that crashed into you and ran away, at which point you surely could have activated the terminal's camera to capture the license plate number.
If you are right-handed, this information will be perfectly well defined although under the situation in which you may find yourself at that moment (very nervous), surely that the image will not offer you a perfect visibility of this number. This article is focused on trying to analyze two tools that theoretically have one to fulfill this objective, being rather a "critical" aspect rather than a recommendation that we would make through the post.
DeblurMyImage: paid application to remove blur from photos
The first tool that we will analyze in this article has the name "DeblurMyImage", which you can download to test it for a long time. Once you go to the developer's website you will find a few versions to choose from, as one of them is compatible with computers and operating systems of 32 bits while the other with 64 bits. The developer mentions that his tool has been optimized for the best AMD graphics processors, being a great advantage for those who have them on their respective personal computers.
After downloading and installing this tool, you will be warned that if you do not enter the code after having paid for its use, you will not have the possibility to save the changes. It is convenient to carry out a large number of tests before making the respective payment, since later we could be regretting having made a useless purchase.
The interface of this tool has only two elements on the left side, which will help you to correct blur manually or automatically, which will depend on whether you select the first or second icon. If you choose the first one, a few parameters will appear on the right side, with a small sliding bar that you can move to the left or right to increase or decrease the degree of blur correction. You can activate the preview box so that you can see the result.
On our part, nor we had a good result trying to look at the license plate number of a car whose photograph is out of focus, so (for this type of case) we would not qualify as exceptional.
Focus Magic: free application to remove blur
If you did not have good results with the tool that we proposed in the upper part, we recommend you try to carry out the same task with another alternative, which is not free either and which has the name «Focus magic«. The advantage that this tool has over the previous one is found in its integration with the graphic design applications that we handle. You can use it independently with its respective executable or by entering Adobe Photoshop as you will find it there, as a plugin.
Using the independent version, when you run it, a window will immediately appear asking the user to select the image to correct. The interface has a lot of elements that will help you eliminate this blur, There are a few more that do the opposite, that is, they can increase this blur.
General conclusions about the tools used
None of the tools that we have used for this post has offered us an effective result, since having used the same image that had a great blur, it was possible to eliminate it to a certain degree but we could not see the number of the license plate of the car that we had put as an example. Of course, this may be due to the fact that the image has been placed on the Internet to be freely used by any user, same as possibly does not have a plate number Well, the owner may have decided to delete it before posting it on the web.
In any case, the advantage of each of these tools is that they are free to use for a limited time, having to pay for an official use license if we consider that some of our photographs have been processed effectively.