Focus Magic Tutorials

These tutorials explain how to use Focus Magic in detail.  You can choose to either read the tutorial as an article or watch a video presentation.

Examples used to identify and fix different types of blurry photos

How to Fix Blurry Photos

Identify out-of-focus blur, motion blur, or low resolution, then choose the repair that matches the problem.

This video also gives a good overview of Focus Magic.

Out-of-focus faces before and after Focus Magic Auto-Focus

Fix Out-of-Focus Photos With Auto-Focus

Learn how to recognize focus blur, repair an out-of-focus photo, and choose the lowest Blur Amount that restores useful detail without over-sharpening the background.

Auto-Focus is the preferred Windows method because it is generally more accurate, less noisy, and better at handling depth of field.

Before and after manual focusing example

Focus Manually

In this tutorial we will be focusing the faces of the people in the foreground and defocusing the background (inverting the depth-of-field).

Before and after motion-blur correction

Remove Motion Blur From a Photo

Learn how to recognize directional motion blur, match its direction in Focus Magic, and choose the Blur Distance that brings streaks or doubled highlights back together.

Before and after image-resolution increase

Increase Resolution

The most common use of this filter is to remove the jagged edges from images that are of a low resolution and need to be enlarged.

Forensic image-detail recovery

Forensics

This tutorial shows how to get the most detail out of an image, whether it is for forensic purposes or just your own family photos.