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Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript

Posted by timothy on from the careful-how-you-hide-stuff dept.

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."

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  1. Oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now for all of the other pixellated stuff...

    Bwahahahaha.

    1. Re:Oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm off to ebay to try it on all those XP serial numbers.

  2. Re:Computer... magnify and enhace by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    BIG squares.

  3. Old tech by Glith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jeez. Hasn't anyone seen CSI?

    1. Re:Old tech by mpaulsen · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was going to watch it online, but they created a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track my IP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_rAamVP2s

  4. Re:Interesting by caffeinemessiah · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's another easy way to recover blurred text in Photoshop: Ctrl+Z.

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    An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
  5. Re:Just ovveride? by larry+bagina · · 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.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  6. Re:Just ovveride? by lostmongoose · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm gonna go with 'funsturbing'