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How to fix oversharp phone images

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Codebreaker

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I don't use my phone seriously but sometimes its just convenient to take a snapshot of something. If the lighting is good and the scene does have to much high frequency detail the images are pretty good. Some of them though, come out oversharpend - they are Jpegs.

Does anyone have any suggestions for LR or PS whereby I can 'de-sharpen' images?

Thanks
 
The first thing I would try is use LRC, create a mask with a brush, and then brush over the oversharp areas and set the brush to negative sharpening. If you go to -100, you will actually get blurring. But sometimes a negative clarity will work as well, depending on how the phone treated the image. Or both if you really don't like it.
 
The first thing I would try is use LRC, create a mask with a brush, and then brush over the oversharp areas and set the brush to negative sharpening. If you go to -100, you will actually get blurring. But sometimes a negative clarity will work as well, depending on how the phone treated the image. Or both if you really don't like it.
Thanks I'll take a look at that option.
 
Why don’t you just use the Lightroom Mobile camera and shoot the photo as RAW and then there will be no phone processing to UNDO?
I've done this in the past but since they're just snapshots I want Jpegs. Raw images need post processing and doing this on a phone depends so much on the App being used to do it. LR Mobile is Ok but its just an added complication I don't need.
 
I've done this in the past but since they're just snapshots I want Jpegs. Raw images need post processing and doing this on a phone depends so much on the App being used to do it. LR Mobile is Ok but its just an added complication I don't need.
The LrM camera also allows you to shoot Jpeg instead of DNG, which may not be over-sharpened?
 
I've tried the LrM camera for Jpegs and found it little different, if at all, than any other camera app. They all seem to use the underlying manufacturers API to process the images.
 
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