What the best way to incress the quality of a ,jpg pic?

[jlyons1234]

Hi,

I am resizeing and optamizing my .jpg pics. I would like to know the best way to get a clear quality pic. I was taugh to do - sharpen (unshapern mask option- is this the best option to use?) then use levels, and finally adjust brighness and contrast. Is there a better way, and is there anyway to reduce the blur in a .jpg if there is some motion in the shot?

Thank you,
Jay Lyons

 

[Eggles]

Personally, I would always leave the sharpening (USM) till the final step. If there is blur in the original image, and the USM doesn't help, then no, there's really no way of improving a blurred pic.

 

[jimoblak]

A JPG file is compressed and lossy. Why don't you go back to the original image before it was compressed to JPG?

Restoring a lossy image format is an impossible task.

 

[Eggles]

Jim - it may well be that his images open initially as a JPG if from a digital camera. I think he's trying to make a poor image into something better - an impossible task if the original is blurred. It's almost beside the point what format they are in.