Photoshop CC Shake Reduction Tutorial: Fix Your Field Photos!
It likely happened the first time an engineer stepped into the field with a camera—and it's been happening ever since. Technical staff consistently take photos that capture the project site, but that aren't quite right for promotional materials.
Nevertheless, you're a marketer and you hold out hope. (You're making a brochure!!) So you scan the project folders, click through the photos, and a few hundred clicks later your search is rewarded. You find what looks like the perfect field photo. You feel lighter. Your smile is brighter. Angels sing and harps strum.
But then you realize—it's not quite in focus.
Before Adobe Photoshop CC, there wasn't much you could do to fix your photo. But now, with the new shake reduction filter, you just might be in luck.
Earlier this week I experienced something similar to the scenario above, and decided to give the Photoshop CC shake reduction filter a try. Here's how it worked:
After opening in the photo in Photoshop CC I used the drop down filter menu, selected sharpen, and then shake reduction.
Photoshop CC made a best guess of the area I wanted to sharpen. That area is in the image below in the detail box on the right of my screen. Photoshop's best guess was pretty close to what I wanted, but wasn't quite right.
In this photo I wanted to clean up the details in front of the second blue flange. I used my cursor to select the area I wanted to sharpen and then selected OK.
You can see the results in the image below. The before image is on the left and the after image is on the right. It's a little hard to tell in this small .jpg, but the filter worked pretty well and I'm planning to use the photo in a brochure. Success!
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Jessica Taft President-Elect, SMPS Alaska Chapter Marketing Director, Enterprise Engineering, Inc. [email protected]