Photoshop image deblurring – don’t expect it to launch with CS6 | Practical Photoshop

Our sister site, TechRadar is reporting that the new deblur tool demonstrated at Adobe Max in October won’t be available in Photoshop CS6.

In an interview with Adobe’s Senior Product Manager Brian O’Neil Hughes, the Photoshop team’s frontman stressed that it’s early days for the technology.

“The reason that [demo] captured the imagination was that it’s a problem that everybody has,” O’Neil Hughes is quoted as saying. “Correcting [motion blur] has been the holy grail for some time. It was a sneak peek that we explicitly asked not be reported. But someone reported it and what’s missing from that video is that is just internal technology we’re working on.”

“There are a lot of people working on it, but it’s a tough nut to crack, especially with the expectations that people have. When you show people a magic trick, people expect you to come through.”

If you’ve yet to see the potential of the new debarring technology, watch this video from MAX 2011 here.

So, there you go. Deblur is very unlikely to make it into Photoshop CS6. Not that that’s surprising – when Adobe demonstrated it at MAX 2011, they stressed how early this tech was.

If you want to stay up-to-date, visit the personal website of Jue Wang, a senior researcher at Adobe who’s developing the image deblurring prototype. He’s looking for image submissions to test the feature on – see the results achieved when Robert Capa’s famous blurred shot of the 1944 Omaha Beach landing is run through the tech, below. //You can see more results here.

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