Cellphone cameras make amateur photographers out of all of us. We can relate to making blurred photos, which we normally then delete and forget about. But sometimes those blurry photos contain important information that we must retrieve. In these instances, it might be worth firing up the free SmartDeblur to see if it can work its magic on the picture.
SmartDeblur is a small portable app available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It enables you to work your magic on photos by tweaking a couple of sliders back and forth which changes the colors and contrasts to make the picture slightly clearer. In the end, it won't produce a perfect high-definition picture worthy of your photo album, but if you're looking to make some information a lot clearer, then this app can probably make some headway.
I'm not going to go into the technical hows and whats of the app, as frankly it's confusing (how many people can claim to know about the "Wiener, Tikhonov, and Total Variation deconvolution methods"?). The developer has written a few tutorials on his website for anyone interested in reading up on the technical side of the app.
The great thing about this app is that if you don't understand the technical side of things, or you don't want to know, you're still covered. The intuitive user interface makes using SmartDeblur absurdly easy. Simply download the portable app, unzip everything into a new folder (making sure you preserve the folder structure), and start up the app. You are provided with an example image if you want to practice before trying the app on your own pictures.
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