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Adobe MAX 2011 - Photoshop Image Deblurring sneak

1.8M views · Oct 7, 2011 · 6:26 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2012–2018

A six-minute clip of Adobe's MAX 2011 sneak peek showing a Photoshop prototype that removes motion blur from photos. The audience reacts with astonishment as blurry images become legible.

Why Hacker News points people here: Linked as a memorable early demo of image deblurring whenever threads on image restoration or synthesis come up.

“Audience: "No way!" and "That's impossible!" and "How did it do that?”HN comment, 2018

What Hacker News said 3

Cites itplanckscnstOct 2012

“It reminded me of a demo from Adobe at MAX 2011 that showed promising results”

Adobe MAX 2011 demo with promising results on removing image defects.

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Very impressive. It reminded me of a demo from Adobe at MAX 2011 that showed promising results; it was more focused on eliminating defects from real images to produce a more aesthetic result. this video

in “Restoration of defocused and blurred images” · view on HN
Cites itc12Sep 2017

“Here is the relevant clip if you're interested”

Clip of Adobe's 2011 unblur demo.

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The low resolution to high resolution image synthesis reminds me of the unblur tool that Adobe demoed during Adobe MAX in 2011. Here is the relevant clip if you're interested this video

in “PixelNN – Example-Based Image Synthesis” · view on HN
Cites itjloughryMar 2018

“Audience: "No way!" and "That's impossible!" and "How did it do that?”

Motion deblurring demo with astonished audience reaction at 1:17.

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The audience reaction was great. It reminds me of a similar audience reaction in this video of motion kernel de-blurring in Adobe Photoshop from 2011 (at about 1:17 in the video) this video Audience: "No way!" and "That's impossible!" and "How did it do that?"

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