Help choosing software ...

[soupster]

I am trying to clean up a photo of a frame from a security video.Its size is only 760x560.There was robbery in a shopping center and I am trying to clean the picture up to get a make on a car.What software would anyone suggest that might make it look better.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Well,. if you watch any TV you know that there is "magic" software that will resotre resolution that never existed in the original imagfe availble to the FBI etc...

NOT ;)

All I can imagine that would be helpfull would possibly be a noise reduction program like neat image,.. or just trying to blow things up (interpolate) the image a bit to make things easier to see?

[rohitkumar]

use photoshop to put the number plate belonging to your most irritating neighbour

[Jesper]

Long ago (more than 10 years), when I was studying, I had a class about digital image processing. The professor showed some software that could take out a lot of motion blur out of images. He had an example of a photo of a moving car, with so much motion blur that the number plate was unreadable. After running it through the software, the number plate was clearly readable. (Ofcourse it wasn't a live demo, computers were far too slow to do it in a short time back then).

Now you can buy software that does approximately the same, Focus Magic (http://www.focusmagic.com/). You can download a trial version before you buy it.

[bdog01]

You should look at Focus Magic. It even has a tutorial with a license plate in it.

http://www.focusmagichelp.com/forensics.htm