FOCUSFIXER VS FOCUS MAGIC TRIAL
Download the free trial and try it on one of your existing images… 0.2 or 0.3 of ‘Deblur’ just adds something a little bit more… It is very simple to use, due to its uncluttered interface, and is available on both PC and Mac platforms. Here is something that is infinitely superior to USM and, in my opinion, High Pass Filtering. This is the FocusFixer plugin window used on this image But, dial in your camera and model, apply the ‘Deblur’ slider and the whole image comes to life. Even before selecting the camera used for the shot, the improvements can be seen. When the plugin window opens, the last ‘Deblur’ amount used remains on view. This is clearly evident when I go to use FocusFixer in my Photoshop CS Filters tab.
FOCUSFIXER VS FOCUS MAGIC SOFTWARE
One of the clever bits about this software is its ‘LenFit’ technology which uses the EXIF data in the image file to alter the ‘de-blurring’ (my word) algorithms to take into account the characteristics of the camera and lens used to take the image. However, a few moments in FocusFixer and the image becomes:Īll the detail appears and the textures in the bird’s feathers come to light. These were definitely not the ideal shooting conditions for a fast-moving, never-still-for-a-moment, small bundle of feathers like a Blue Tit. The photo was taken through a double-glazed kitchen door window. A Manfrotto 055B tripod, cable release and the camera’s mirror-lock were also used.
The shooting conditions were (according to the EXIF data) 1/8sec at f/11, using a 70-300mm APO lens at 300mm.
FOCUSFIXER VS FOCUS MAGIC FULL
This is the full frame image:įrom this I cropped down to this version: To test the program I used a shot of a blue tit feeding on a fat ball. FocusFixer produces superior results on soft images as well as those with more obvious focus blur, it simply puts the light back where it belongs to give you a sharper image. This perceptual trick often looks ok, but very effectively enhances noise - precisely not what you want. Unsharp masking cannot do this - it attempts to remove blur by blurring the already soft image and subtracting this from the soft original. If you know how the image was blurred, this can be used with the information in the image to reverse the blur - to make it sharper. The vast majority of the information is still there in a blurred image – it’s just not in a form that looks good to us. You know the situation when an image that looked sharp on the camera’s LCD and the image editor’s thumbnail isn’t as sharp as it could be when opened up at 100%? We’ve all been there and normally the photo may end up in the recycle bin, but there may be a solution - FocusFixer’ from FixerLabs, now at version 1.4.įocusFixer, to use the manufacturer’s ‘blurb’, explodes the myth that once an image has been blurred the information is lost.