Depixelate

Hi, It's Ray
Please, I need assistance on how to depixelate an image

Remove all the pixels?

But seriously Raymond, do you mean make a photo into a vector object or shapes?

I imagine the "image" needs to have a slight Blur introduced. If one has XDPX, use FX > New > Soften filter > Gaussian blur (smart) or similar.

Acorn

My take on the question is VERY different ...

The way I read it, is that raymondnkwuda has a pixelated image and he want to make it clearer/sharper.

As far as I'm aware it's not possible (depending on the degree of pixelation), although there are some programs that might interpolate between pixels and clean it up somewhat.

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Originally Posted by ss-kalm

My take on the question is VERY different ...

The way I read it, is that raymondnkwuda has a pixelated image and he want to make it clearer/sharper.

As far as I'm aware it's not possible (depending on the degree of pixelation), although there are some programs that might interpolate between pixels and clean it up somewhat.

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Of course you can do it - I've seen the fuzzy number plates on the films - they specially process them and the unreadable plate becomes crystal clear and the investigators can read it.

LOL ;-)

If Ray means that there is a lot of noise in the image, then try NeatImage. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work with Xara.

The image in question is blur, so I want to make it sharper and clearer

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Originally Posted by raymondnkwuda

The image in question is blur, so I want to make it sharper and clearer

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The best you can hope for is to run a sharpen filter on your image using whatever software that you have.

You can't magically create detail from a blur - just yet anyway.

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Originally Posted by pauland

The best you can hope for is to run a sharpen filter on your image using whatever software that you have.

You can't magically create detail from a blur - just yet anyway.

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Ok, Thanks.

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Originally Posted by browj2

If Ray means that there is a lot of noise in the image, then try NeatImage. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work with Xara.

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I think, it is compatible with Photoshop as a plugin

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Originally Posted by raymondnkwuda

I think, it is compatible with Photoshop as a plugin

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I use it with PaintShop Pro, but it should work with Xara.

For Deblurring or sharpening, there is a program called Blurity. I've used it once. You may want to try it.

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Originally Posted by browj2

I use it with PaintShop Pro, but it should work with Xara.

For Deblurring or sharpening, there is a program called Blurity. I've used it once. You may want to try it.

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Okay,
Thanks

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Originally Posted by browj2

I use it with PaintShop Pro, but it should work with Xara.

For Deblurring or sharpening, there is a program called Blurity. I've used it once. You may want to try it.

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I tried downloading the software but the requirements is beyond the capacity of my system.

Anything is possible in Xara. Here I've blurred one side of the image to give the effect of a mist rolling in. Done
quickly but I could have done a better job but it shows what Xara is capable of.

Stygg

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Originally Posted by stygg2003

Anything is possible in Xara. Here I've blurred one side of the image to give the effect of a mist rolling in. Done
quickly but I could have done a better job but it shows what Xara is capable of.

Stygg

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The OP had the opposite problem - putting detail in where it's blurred.

if what you have is a blur then you can 'sharpen the blur'... that is all you can do... no program can process information that is not actually there, not even xara [sorry stygg] - so you may get something meaningfull when you sharpen, and you may not - what you will not get is the original.. how close you get depends on how much blur there is

Topaz have a fairly new tool called Sharpen AI. I Haven't tried it myself but it looks impressive. It might be overkill with the price unless it's something you'd use often though.

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Originally Posted by raymondnkwuda

I tried downloading the software but the requirements is beyond the capacity of my system.

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I was surprised when I saw this because Blurity is a small program. I only just now looked at the requirements:
Windows system requirements:
Windows XP or newer
4 GB of system RAM (8 GB recommended)
Processor made after 2004 (Intel strongly recommended)
500 MB available drive space

If your computer can't handle this, it definitely can't handle Xara.

For those who think deblurring can't be done, I suggest that you take a look at the Blurity site. It doesn't work in all cases, but it can do some magic.

good examples of 'how close you get depends on how much blur there is ' ;)