Deal with Blurry Photos from Camera Shake?

Open an image that’s blurry, and where you feel the blurriness was caused by not holding the camera steady enough when you took the shot in low light (hey, it happens). Then, go under the Filter menu, under Sharpen, and choose Shake Reduction. (Note: This filter doesn’t work if what made your photo blurry was your subject moving when you were shooting in low light.) When the dialog opens, it automatically analyzes your image, starting in the middle (where most blurring occurs), and then it searches outward from there. You’ll see a progress bar appear at the bottom of the little Detail Loupe on the right side. Once it’s done, it shows you its blur correction, and it either did a pretty good job (it won’t be sharp as a tack, but certainly visibly better), or if it didn’t really work, it’ll seem like it hardly did anything at all. If you think it’s “close,” then try adjusting the Blur Trace Bounds slider in the top right, or press Q to have the Detail Loupe float over your image. You can then reposition it anywhere you’d like, click on the circular button in the bottom left, and it’ll analyze the area right under the Loupe. One last thing you can try is expanding the Advanced section and, using the Blur Estimation tool, click-and-drag around areas that you want analyzed (as seen above). For most cases, all I do is open the filter, let it do its thing, and if it looks good, I’m happy. If not, I move the Loupe until I either get better results or I bail on using this filter altogether, because it doesn’t always work (hey, at least ya know, right?).