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Ever wondered how FocusFixer compares to USM and SmartSharpen in Photoshop? Check out this example we think you will be surprised at the result.

' .. it really is a fantastic product - even the new efforts from CS2 come nowhere close. I've sharpened up pictures that CS2 Smart Sharpen cannot manage ... excellent value". Bob Brind-Surch

"Highly recommended" Uwe Steinmeuller.

"..noticably superior to unsharp masking." James Barton - James Barton design

"..the effect of seeing soft focus removed is really astonishing!" Ron Giddings

"Infinitely superior to Unsharp masking" Mike Otley

"... 20 seconds later my jaw hit the floor" David Mantripp

"..beats all the others I have seen- and without needing a supercomputer.." JB Andrews

"...I have no hesitation in recommending this software..." Vincent Oliver

To see an example of FocusFixer at work take a look here.

FocusFixer is the ultimate image sharpening tool. Our top selling software has any number of uses - from removing "softness" to bringing a background element of a photograph into focus. It just simply removes softness and even focus blur - invaluable for countering softness generated by digital cameras or those occasions where a narrow depth of field results from wide apertures. FocusFixer will restore detail and it will add clarity and quality to your results. Use it on colour and monochrome pictures - and even photographs taken by traditional methods and scanned into a PC or Mac OS X.

Sharpen your images with FocusFixer the ultimate sharpening tool
Professional's choice for pre-sharpening
Razor sharp results from "soft" images
Removes focus blur cleanly and simply
Uses EXIF information to produce stunning results
Use on selected regions of an image
Works on any size of image you can open in Photoshop
Works on both 8 bit and 16 bit images
Easy installation - just download as instructed
Optimised for PC and MAC OS X

With the launch of FocusFixer 1.3 we introduced the use of LensFIT technology (patent applied for). The results were sharper images with greater clarity and results you had to see to believe. Version 1.4 makes this technology easier to use and extends it to a wider range of digital cameras.

See more examples of FocusFixer in action.

The control panel explained..

Once installed FocusFixer will appear as a Filter option in Photoshop. To use you first select an image or image region. The control panel will display the original image in the left window and the sharpened result in the right hand window. To move around the image you drag the mouse to the preferred location. To adjust the level of zoom select the + or -icon.

The primary control is the Deblur slider, which can be adjusted from 0 to 40. The slider will remember your setting from the last time you used FocusFixer. Too low a value and your photo will remain soft and too high a value will give edge artifacts. Between these two is a "sweet spot" where the correction exactly matches the softness caused by even the best cameras and optics.

The Threshold slider can be used to suppress noise if your photo was taken under high-ISO or low-light conditions. The Threshold can
usually be left at zero for good cameras, such as in this example,
working in a normal ISO range.

To achieve superior results, FocusFixer models the behaviour of your camera and optics using the LensFIT feature. This can be done automatically in many cases by reading information from the EXIF data attached to your photograph. For example Canon cameras usually provide all the information needed by LensFIT. In other cases you may need to specify the Make and Model to activate the LensFIT feature. (Check here for a list of currently supported cameras.)

Once you're happy that the preview panel is pin-sharp, click OK and the selected image or image region will be sharpened and the result returned to Photoshop.

FocusFixer explodes the myth that once an image has been blurred the information is lost. The vast majority of the information is still there in a blurred image - it is just not in a form that looks "good" to us. If you know how the image was softened or blurred by the lens, this can be used to reverse the blur - to make it sharper. Unsharp masking (USM) cannot do this - it attempts to remove blur by blurring the already soft image and subtracting some of this from the soft original. This perceptual trick often looks ok but very effectively enhances noise - precisely not what you want. FocusFixer produces superior results on soft photos as well as those with more obvious focus blur, it "simply" puts the "light" back where it belongs to give you a sharper image.
FocusFixer is designed for professionals - photographers, graphic designers, web designers and forensic scientists included - and it is so easy to install and apply that it will prove a valuable image editing tool for the keen amateur photographer as well.
FocusFixer is available for both PC and Mac OS X and is designed to be used with Adobe's Photoshop and compatible image editing suites, such as PhotoShop Elements and Jasc's Paint Shop Pro. Check compatibility here. Here's what some of our customers think .....
"We think it is a nice tool if you want to pull out more detail and/or want to sharpen selectively." Uwe Steinmeuller's review at Digital Outback Photo gives FocusFixer a "Highly Recommended" rating. Read the full review.
David Mantripp, on his website snowhenge, comments on FocusFixer's ability to restore out-of-focus images: "This is a pretty astonishing claim. So I downloaded the trial version of FocusFixer and gave it a whirl. Approximately 20 seconds later my jaw hit the floor." Read the full review.
Mike Otley, writing on the SD9 Gallery site about FocusFixer, says: "Something that is infinitely superior to USM and, in my opinion, High Pass Filtering. It is very simple to use due to its uncluttered interface, is available on both PC and Mac platforms and - finally - does something I thought couldn't be done. It improves even further the image-generating quality of a Sigma dSLR." Read the full review.
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