Sharpen a blurry image.

Bring back clearer-looking edges in a slightly soft photo without turning skin, hair or bright outlines into crunchy sharpening artefacts.

Choose an imagePick a JPG, PNG or WebPBest for slightly soft photos, resized artwork, product shots and text that needs a little more edge clarity.

Sharpen strength38%How strongly existing edge detail is boosted.Detail radius1.4pxSmall radius suits hair/text; larger radius affects broader detail.

Protect smooth areas8Raise for faces and skies so noise and skin texture are not sharpened unnecessarily.Avoid halos55%Limits bright or dark outlines around strong edges.

Export formatJPEGJPG quality94%

Tip: denoise first if the source is grainy, then sharpen lightly. Severe motion blur or missed focus cannot be genuinely reconstructed.

Private by design: processing stays in this browser tab.

Best for slight softness, not missing information

Sharpening increases contrast around detail that already exists. It can make resized photos, phone shots, product images, screenshots and mildly missed focus look clearer. Severe motion blur or a completely out-of-focus subject does not contain enough real edge detail to reconstruct reliably.

Why halo protection matters

Heavy sharpening can create pale or dark outlines around hair, text and high-contrast edges. The Avoid halos control limits how far those edge changes are allowed to go, while Protect smooth areas keeps flatter regions such as skin, skies and walls from becoming noisy.

Choose a preset by subject

Face / portrait is deliberately restrained. Photo and General are balanced starting points. Product and Text / screenshot can tolerate firmer edge treatment. After sharpening, inspect the image at normal viewing size as well as zoomed in before exporting.

JPG or PNG?

Use JPG for ordinary photographs and smaller files. Choose PNG for screenshots, graphics or anything where you want to avoid another lossy compression pass.

Useful to know

Do the job. Know what to check.

Short, practical guidance for this specific kind of task, without turning a tiny job into a tutorial marathon.

What this tool does

Sharpen blurry image

Sharpen a slightly soft image with strength, detail radius, smooth-area and halo protection, plus face, photo and text presets.

The tool is designed to get that one job done without making you learn a full piece of software first.

Best results

Sharpening reveals edges; it does not invent missing detail.

Zoom around hair, text and high-contrast edges. Bright or dark outlines are a sign the sharpening is too strong.

Portraits usually need lower strength and more smooth-area protection than products or text graphics.

In plain English

What matters most.

Slight softness from resizing, compression or mild missed focus can improve. Strong motion blur and severe focus errors cannot be truly recovered by sharpening alone.

AI tools download their model on first use and local-processing tools work directly in your browser. Choose the specialist tool that best matches your subject for cleaner results.

File size & formats

Big images use more memory than their file size suggests.

What can I use?

JPG, PNG and WebP are the safest choices. Other image formats work when your browser can decode them.

Is there a size limit?

There is no extra OutMonkey upload-size cap in the browser interface. Very high-resolution images can still hit your browser or device memory limit, especially when enlarging them or running local models.

If the file is huge

If an enormous image will not process, use a smaller copy or reduce its pixel dimensions first. Keep the original untouched.