Photoshoppers: How do you correct a blurry photo? Or can you?

[hippywife]

I use Photoshop in my work of publishing a monthly newsletter at work.

However, the photos I use in part of it are not taken by me. They are taken by someone else who takes the worst photos ever! She makes me want to open a big can of whoopass on her every time I upload the photos from the camera to my computer. She's a right wing religious nutjob on top of being too stupid to take a good photo. She honestly cannot do it to save her life.

I do fine with correcting the exposures and using the clone brush to eradicate some parts of the images I do not want. There are some that I could use if they weren't so freaking blurry which is what most of them end up being, the others being way to dark usually.

So is there a way to fix the blurry ones to make them usable?

Thanx for any help you can offer! :hi:

[ManiacJoe]

1. Blurry can be corrected only so much.

However, I am a big fan of a plug-in called "Focus Magic". It does both motion blur and out-of-focus blur.
http://www.focusmagic.com

Short of that, take a look at what can be done with unsharp-mask and high-pass filters.

[hippywife]

5. That's pretty much what I thought.

Thanx for the link. I'll check it out. :hi:

[Schema Thing]

2. what he said. But unless it's impossible, just demand that they reshoot it.

[hippywife]

6. These aren't photos that can be reshot.

They are taken during activities and entertainment at a retirement home. :hi:

[MattSh]

3. Or maybe suggest that you can do the photos better?

Crappy photos in a newsletter doesn't exactly say good things about the company that sends out that newsletter.

[hippywife]

4. That would mean that I would have to stay

hours after work and sit through really crappy retirement home entertainers. Ain't doin' it. :rofl: