Categories: Technology

Adobe shows off new Photoshop plugin to unblur images

At this year’s MAX conference held at the beginning of October, Adobe demoed one of their most exciting product innovations in recent years – a new Photoshop plugin that removes blur from an image.

As the video above demonstrates, the plugin analyses blurred images, calculates the direction and degree of camera shake that occurred when the photo was taken and then rectifies it based on this data. The crowd cheer and applaud in amazement.

The plugin appears to operate in a few different modes. Analysis of text in images is one of the them. The demo shows a blurred image of a poster captured on a mobile device where the text is illegible. Processing part of the image through the plugin soon rectifies this.

The process of unblurring an image is process intensive and, as evidenced in the video, can take a few moments to complete. This is still an early prototype so its speed will probably improve overtime.

Adobe has not commented whether this feature will make it into the latest version of Photoshop, although if it did, it would certainly be welcomed openly.

Albizu Garcia

Albizu Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gain -- a marketing technology company that automates the social media and content publishing workflow for agencies and social media managers, their clients and anyone working in teams.

View Comments

  • This Plug-in would be really useful for editors, I seriously hope this makes an entry into PS CS6 ! *prays god*

  • This Plug-in would be really useful for editors, I seriously hope this makes an entry into PS CS6 ! *prays god*

  • This Plug-in would be really useful for editors, I seriously hope this makes an entry into PS CS6 ! *prays god*

  • This Plug-in would be really useful for editors, I seriously hope this makes an entry into PS CS6 ! *prays god*

  • This Plug-in would be really useful for editors, I seriously hope this makes an entry into PS CS6 ! *prays god*

  • This Plug-in would be really useful for editors, I seriously hope this makes an entry into PS CS6 ! *prays god*

  • This Plug-in would be really useful for editors, I seriously hope this makes an entry into PS CS6 ! *prays god*

Recent Posts

Can Bitcoin Be the Key to Ending Perpetual War?

Every now and then, I stumble upon posts such as these here and there: And,…

3 hours ago

The Coming AI Winter: How Physics May Be Leading the Way

Winter(Physics) is Coming It now looks like Large Language Models running on the GPT technology…

3 hours ago

Top 15 LatAm tech journalists and editors of 2024

Latin America’s tech industry is booming, with innovative new startups popping up across the region.…

6 hours ago

G20 announces initiative to crackdown on climate change disinformation

The Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change claims to 'safeguard those reporting on…

8 hours ago

How GPUs, widely used in gaming, are helping doctors get a better look inside us

In the late 19th Century, physicians began inserting hollow tubes equipped with small lights into…

18 hours ago

Top Five Trends Shaping Gaming in 2025

This year wasn’t exactly what the video gaming industry expected — it declined by 7%…

2 days ago