Blurriness in photos

[johnbjohn1961]

Can someone tell me if there is anywhere i can send my photos that are very blurry and out of focus to.

[Buenchico]

If only parts of a photograph are blurry (at similar distances from the camera) it's a focussing problem. If the whole image is blurry, then it's due to camera shake.

Either way, it's impossible to add detail to the photo which wasn't recorded by the camera in the first place. You can get a slight increase in the overall 'sharpness' (but with an increase in 'grain') by using a program like Adobe Photoshop or the nearest free equivalent to it, Gimp:
http://www.gimp.org/

It's pointless paying any commercial service for such a task as:
(a) the high cost wouldn't be justified by the fairly poor results ; and
(b) you can achieve the limited improvement that's possible yourself anyway.

Chris

[snags]

All depends on how blurry and out of focus they are... and how much you want to pay to have the originals scanned (unless they're digital images) and retouched. Personally I'd say its not worth the effort or the cost... you won't get crisp, clear images back from poor originals.

[NOX]

Hello this is Nox's daughter not Nox, I hope that's ok.
If you want to reduce your blur there isn't much you can do except sharpen the image. The problem then is that it will be grainy. To help with this open adobe photoshop and go image, mode, lab colour.That changes it into a three channel thing, a, b and lightness. All of the noise and grainyness is in the a & b channel so blur these a little bit. Then to make it so your picture isn't blurry sharpen the lightness channel and you will have a sharper picture but without the grainyness.Then change it back to RGB and it ought to look ok. You might need to try a few different levels for each before you get it perfect.
The best way to avoid blur in the first place is to make sure that you use the highest shutter speed you can with the light and just try not to wobble. I hope this is ok.