Photoshop to get new image 'Unblur' tool (1 Viewer)

[TheDeparted]

Yup. That's why it would be really impressive if it could someday do that.

You don't remember the fractal image format (.fif) from the mid-nineties?

As I recall, the guy with the patent wanted too much money for it, so it never really went mainstream - though it's used in commercial applications to blow-up photos to insane sizes.

Also, it took a fair amount of processing power, which was not abundant in those days - but the promise was that you could compress a jpg down to maybe 10k using the fractal algorithms and send it over a 28.8 kbps in a short time and uncompress it locally in less time that it would take to just transfer the larger jpg.

 

[Redfish]

Seems Adobe got caught with their pants down on this demonstration: Adobe admits using 'synthetic blur' image in deblur demo ...

 

[TheDeparted]

Seems Adobe got caught with their pants down on this demonstration: Adobe admits using 'synthetic blur' image in deblur demo ...

Doesn't seem like a big deal to me - once you've blurred the image, you've destroyed data. Fully recreating it is difficult or impossible, whether the blurring was natural or artificial - the unblurred image of Kevin Lynch undoubtedly was different from the original, sharp version.

Anyway, the blurred image from the posted video was still a 'naturally blurred' image.