Show HN: Blurity, my project for making blurry photos sharp
Hi everybody,
Wanted to show you all what I've been working on for the past (many) months. It's an online tool to remove the blur from motion-blurred photos.
First, let me set some expectations: this only works on certain types of blur. Severe focus blur, blur that is inconsistent within the photo, "blur" because the image is very small, blur due to compression artifacts, and other non-motion blurs don't usually work too well (there are occasional exceptions). Early users (and paying customers, woo!) have shown a remarkable breadth of interpretations about what constitutes a "blurry" photo; I'm still trying to figure out on which segment to focus.
I'd love to get some feedback, especially about how to better educate users on what the tool does and how to improve the user experience.
If you're wondering how this works, the short answer is that it builds a model of the blur and then removes it from the image using deconvolution. The technique ("blind deconvolution") has been around for a while, and there are a few mostly academic tools out there that work in a similar manner, but Blurity attempts to bring the blur removal technology to the consumer market.
This falls into the category of a project that has been "almost ready" for about a year and a half, spending most of that time in a quiet beta. In any case, I'm finally ready to give it some exposure.
Comments and questions appreciated. Thanks!