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trying to sharpen an image, but having major trouble

PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:12 pm
by visionsandvoices
well, I work in the library of my college and we had to video tape a lecture. My boss asked me to get a couple pictures out of the video (I'm video editor, not a picture editor haha) and they are kind of blurry. I've been trying to use photoshop elements and have found numerous tutorials on how to sharpen a picture. I just can't seem to sharpen it. It usually ends up coming out worse that the original. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? thanks

Re: trying to sharpen an image, but having major trouble

PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:37 pm
by MichelB
Hello visionsandvoices, and welcome in our forum :cheer2:

Extracting still images from a video (for other readers : File/import/Frame from video) is possible in PSE. The problems are the limited pixel dimensions of a video frame and motion blur. Each frame is generally shot at a relatively slow shutter speed, something like 1/60th of a second.
There is not much you can do to suppress the motion blur.
Perhaps you could provide us with a sample picture to see if someone here can help you to get better results ?