Reduce camera shake

Hey everybody RC here, I'm one of the Photoshop guys and I'm here to talk to you about a great new feature inside of the new Photoshop.

Now, this is something that has been rumored for a while and we're really excited to be able to see it now.

Let me just talk to you a little bit about the problem.

I'm gonna go ahead and open up this file here.

And you're gonna notice this is a file that I took a prom picture, that it took over the weekend.

But I was excited about it.

But when I got a little bit closer, I started noticing, ah, it's not as sharp as I would want it to be.

Guess what, I'm suffering from a little bit of camera shake here.

So in images where you have a good enough ISO, right, you're not gonna wanna do this in high ISO image, you're not gonna wanna do this in super dark images, you're not going to wanna do this with images that have a lot of green.

This is something that could help you quite a bit.

So there are some parameters for it.

But when it works, it's gonna save your bacon.

So right here under the Filter menu, you now have an option too, under Sharpen, you can go ahead and get rid of shake reduction, right.

It's not necessarily blur.

What it is, is it's pulling of a little bit of blur due to shape, due to slow shutter speeds, due to a moving hand.

So you wanna be able to kind of pull back some of that information and get back some sharpness.

So you have the option right under the Sharpen menu called Shake Reduction.

Now what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna click on that, and I'm gonna come down here and I'm just gonna zoom in a little bit. so we can see what we're dealing with.

You'll notice that right off the bat, it uses this one section, right?

This one grid as to where it's going to say, hey, guess what I wanna remove some of the blur from that one area.

You can decide where you wanna pull that right, you can decide that that's the area that you wanna do.

Or you can use this blur estimation tool to kind of go over here to this one area and go no, I want you to use this area as the estimation for getting rid of that shake.

You'll notice that right off the bat, it knocks out a lot of that shake, and it shows you something called Rendering coarse preview.

Remember, when you're doing any kind of blur removals, what it's going to do is, it's going to do a little bit of sharpening.

But that sharpening is gonna be largely something that's gonna add a little bit of artifacting, whenever you're working with this.

So you'll notice that you can increase and decrease the balance at which it uses to be able to trace that blur.

But you also have the option to be able to smooth out any noise that's been introduced from this, and from the result of what this does.

So I can go ahead and I can smooth out the results here a little bit.

And you'll notice that every time that you do that, it's gonna re-render.

And this bar over here is kind of moving that stuff out a little bit.

You can also suppress any kind of artifacts that may appear at the process of this.

You'll see sometimes like some bigger blotches or dots, you can go ahead and move that by dragging this over to the right.

You'll also notice that you have more than one blur estimation region.

So I have, the first one that was created was this one that was in this section, and it has a pin.

That's that first one that's here.

The second one that was created was this one, and it shows up as number two.

And you can continue to add these estimation regions to be able to kind of increase the accuracy of this blur.

Once this is done with its coarse preview, it's gonna go ahead and build a little bit of a smoother preview.

And you'll be able to see that this is going to take something that was a little bit blurry and really bring you back and give you back some of that detail.

Now that that's complete, I'm gonna go ahead and click on the OK button here.

And now just to show you just kind of how far we've done, I'm gonna go ahead and select all here, I'm gonna copy it, or actually here even better.

I'll just go to Image I'll go to Duplicate.

I'll make a copy of it.

That'll move it over to the right, and then come over here and I'm just going to do a File, Revert.

So now take a look at this one section here.

This is the before, this is the after.

Now, probably hard to see right, side to side.

So what I'm gonna do is, I'm just gonna come over here, I'm gonna go to Window, Arrange, and I'm gonna make a 2-up Vertical.

And then I'm gonna go to Window, Arrange, Match All.

So you're looking at the exact same section.

That's before, that's after, it's a really, really good change.

Now, I'm gonna go over to this one section, and let's just say that I wanna add kind of a finishing touch here.

For this, I can go ahead and I can zoom out here.

I'm gonna go ahead and duplicate this.

And let's just go ahead and use one of the new options for Camera Raw Filter.

I'll grab this here, and all I wanna do is just kind of go over here to this noise or to this detail section.

I'm gonna do just a tad bit of noise reduction.

I'm gonna do a little bit of an exposure and just a little bit of vibrance.

Okay, then I'll click OK.

And now this is the before, this is our after.

That, for me is huge, because you can take something now that has a little bit of that blurred due to your own hand, you're not gonna take something that's completely fogged out and get detail in it.

But if you kind of varied a little bit, or if the focus was just a tiny bit off, that's a great recovery, right inside of the new version of Photoshop.

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