Help Me !!! need to recover an out-of-focus image

[blaze_away]

Hi Folks...........can some one offer some practical help and advice please.

I need to rescue this image. I need to bring the image into focus but am not sure what is the best approach for portraits.

I have Lightroom & PS3 and I shot the image in Nikons raw format .NEF

 

[WeddingHack]

My practical advice would be to bin it and shoot it again if possible - it's so OOF that any recovery is going to look rubbish.

If you really want to try to fix it, then this product is very good : Focusmagic

 

[Gerods]

Any better.

 

[blaze_away]

Any better.

Yes, thats better, what did you do to it ?

 

[EdinburghGary]

Both are giving me a headache, the focus is inducing double vision, even on the edit...
Wierd
G.

 

[Gerods]

It's a piece of software that I have.

 

[hotchef23]

still way out of focus on the eyes not a good picture even after the software work]
as Gary says double vision.
IMHO

 

[blaze_away]

Both are giving me a headache, the focus is inducing double vision, even on the edit...
Wierd
G.

Sorry for that, I think it could even be subject movement actually, shot in very poor light ISO 800 f6 1/10 sec

 

[walls]

just quickly, remove haze with USM at something like 10-20% at 50-60 radius, then make image pop by increasing to around 400% at between 0.1-0.4 radius...history brush or mask for selective sharpening and some noise removal.

 

[pxl8]

FocusMagic has a tool to recover motion blur that might help but without seeing the original it's hard to say if the results will be good enough. At a 1/10th I suspect the blur isn't along a single axis so recovery might not be possible.

 

[Byker28i]

Just tell the model it was a deliberate soft focus shot?

 

[blaze_away]

All great suggestions thanks.

I'll make sure I don't make the mistake again !