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Robin Nichols
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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The Sharpen tools: Shake Reduction

As the name suggests, Shake Reduction (Enhance>Shake Reduction) is included in the sharpening toolbox and targets those pictures that are not 100% clear. I've always been a bit suspicious of tools like this because, let's face it, if the image is really unsharp, there's little we can do to reverse the problem. This tool allows you to select a portion of the image onto which shake reduction, a processor-intensive process, can be imposed (inset screenshot below). In the example shown here, I think it actually works well (improved on the right-hand side), but it won't work quite so well on all blurry images. Its efficiency depends on the degree of shake, and the area the problem covers in the file. But don't take my word for it—try it yourself and see whether it works on your images.

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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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