Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript 157
An anonymous reader writes "There's been a lot of talk about recovering blurred or pixelated text, but here's an actual implementation using nothing but Photoshop and a little JavaScript. Includes a Hollywood-esque video showing the uncovered letters slowly appearing."
Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
From TFA:
Hey Timothy, are you trying to get the mac fans riled up?
I'd try this myself, but I stopped pirating PS at version 6. Be interesting to see what other Slashdotters make of this.
Oblig (Score:5, Funny)
Bwahahahaha.
Computer... magnify and enhace (Score:2, Funny)
20x zoom. Mr. Data, what does that look like to you?
Re:Computer... magnify and enhace (Score:5, Funny)
BIG squares.
Re:Oblig (Score:5, Funny)
I'm off to ebay to try it on all those XP serial numbers.
OR Japanese pr0n? (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't it be cool if you could use this technique to clear up the fuzzies on censored Japanese pr0n?!
Old tech (Score:5, Funny)
Jeez. Hasn't anyone seen CSI?
Re:OR Japanese pr0n? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Old tech (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So... (Score:3, Funny)
You can do the exact same thing in GIMP rather easily.
Get some image with blurred text.
Try blurring some letters to match up with the blurred text.
Fail.
See? You've already done what this guy did with javascript, photoshop, and who know how much wasted time.
Re:Just ovveride? (Score:5, Funny)
Heck, forget the plugin, these would be pretty simple to automate these within Photoshop.
This is gimp country. On a quiet night, you can hear adobe squeal like a pig.
Re:slashdotted after 9 posts (Score:3, Funny)
He's ****, Jim
There. Fixed that for you.
Re:Failure (Score:4, Funny)
Little Girl: "Wow! It's a schooner!"
Willam: "You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!"
Little Boy: "A schooner is a sailboat, stupidhead!"
Willam: "Well you know what? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY! OVER THERE, THAT'S JUST A GUY IN A SUIT!!"
Re:Old tech (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just ovveride? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oblig (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Old tech (Score:4, Funny)
IT Guy: You mean, like, track their IP address?
Writer: IP address. That sounds good. Okay, how would you do it?
IT Guy: Well, working here, my dumbass manager would insist that I write a stupid GUI interface in Visual Basic, but---
Writer: Awesome! We'll put that down. *click*
Re:So... (Score:1, Funny)
And thus began GFree678's spiral to trolldem.
At first, it was a mistake: "Hey, that wasn't flamebait!" Yet, through a series of bad moderations and various other mistakes he was modded down, further and further. His karma sank to unfathomable depths, his soul crushed with defeat.
But then, one day in the not to distant future, the final straw snapped. He became unstoppable . "AARGGGGGHH GNAA" he bellowed. Entire cities crushed beneath his ever growing girth. "GGGOOOOAAATTTSSSEEEEEEE," he raged.
Mods, you have no idea what you have unleashed on the world.
Re:Interesting (Score:3, Funny)
Is there any way to change that? I use a mac at school, but I'm not dropping $1000 on a laptop with 1 gig of ram.
Nope there's no way to change it but you cheapskates can just use Ctrl-Z instead.
Re:General case != this (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just ovveride? (Score:3, Funny)