Blurry Pet Photos

When blur reaches a pet photo, the result is soft edges, doubled outlines on faces and hands, and detail that never resolves however close you look. The cause is nearly always a slow shutter, a subject who moved, a lens that was never sharp or a camera held by a child, and pet photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the blurry pet photo as a repair job: it removes the blur and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the markings, the collar and the coat texture as photographed. Faces of a dog, cat or horse, sometimes with a child holding the lead that were lost to the blur are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

For blurry pet photos the order is blur first, faces second, upscale last, each step taking the previous result. Standard suits a pet photo for a screen; Pro or Max gives a blurry print more detail for reprinting.