Just found a pic of a good friend and I that i'd like to get printed but my friend who took it had had a few shandys and it's not focussed correctly.

Can it be sharppened up and made to look better?

If anyone on here could do such a thing for me i'd be super grateful :)

Email it to me if ya like and i'll see if Adobe can do anything. It's got a sharpness filter thingy that may help :)

It can be improved with PhotoShop but you will never get it magically in focus.... you can fire it over to me as well if you like and I'll see what can be done :)

Cheers guys, can you PM me your email addresses please? :)

Yeah, you can make things "appear" like they're sharper, although if you overdo it, it gives a very artificial look (I could explain the theory of how the filter works, but would bore you!).

Photoshop etc however can't recover detail that wasn't captured because of the image being out of focus to start with. Whilst fancy processsing may be able to help improve things, the magic "enhance" that they use in the movies to turn a single blurry blob into a perfect hi-res picture of someone's face with a single click of a mouse is fiction.

Little tip for USM in Photoshop......

Convert the image to LAB colour first, then apply the sharpening, then convert back to RGB.

Don't get so many artefacts.

Geezer

Another little tip for USM in photoshop - instead of sharpening say, 100%, do 2 x 50% (Ctrl-F after the first one) to produce "finer" results.

What the heck are all these other threads doing in our photography forum? :)

I disagree completely with the idea of running most sharpen filters twice. By most filters, I mean any which use the edge enhancement by creating a deliberate under & over-shoot type method method. I can draw graphs of intensity along lines to show you exactly why I say this, but if you understand how the filters work, you probably don't need me to.