Hi Bill, If you can extract the series of frames that interest you as a group of individual image files (sorry, don't know which program to use), then you could sharpen them as a batch using Imagemagick.
Imagemagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/ Tutorial: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/ Background on sharpening: http://ronbigelow.com/articles/sharpen1/sharpen1.htm - mark --- On Thu, 8/1/09, [email protected] ra<[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [SLUG] Sharpening an image. > To: [email protected] > Received: Thursday, 8 January, 2009, 4:21 PM > I've a file taken with a mobile phone. > > The detail is execrable. > > It's important to identify a couple of faces in the > file. > > I've asked around. The best I have is to go through the > file, select a > critical frame, download it and use The Gimp to sharpen a > given face. > > First off, can this be done? > > Secondly, can it be done in one sweep for critical frame > +/- 10 frames? > > (the reason: should the sharpening not be good enough, I > might be able to > recognise a face by the way it "looks"---like the > slightly blurred Mona > Lisa of some psychological tests). > > Any help etc. > > Regards, > > Bill Bennett. > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
