SmartDeblur Portable

Designed as a free and portable version for SmartDeblur by a third-party developer, this small app intends to remove the blur effect from images, thus giving users the possibility to find out a particular piece of information that was previously unclear. It does not actually improve the quality of pictures.

Since installation is not a requirement, you can extract the program files to any part of the hard disk and just click the executable to run. Another possibility is to save a copy of SmartDeblur to a USB flash disk or similar storage unit, in order to run it on any PC with minimum effort and no previous installers.

An important factor to take into account is that the Windows registry does not receive new entries, and no extra files are created on the HDD without your consent.

As far as the interface is concerned, SmartDeblur opts for a clean window with an intuitive structure, where image files can be opened with the help of either the file browser or drag-and-drop mtehod.

You can get started by selecting the blur type between out of focus, motion or Gaussian. It is possible to adjust the radius, smoothness, correction strength and edge feather levels, zoom in and out, as well as to establish the image size limit, preview method (Wiener or Tikhonov) and high quality level.

The tool does not put a strain on PC performance, since it runs on low CPU and RAM. However, it takes a long time to load an image as well as to apply the deblur effects. It crashed on several occasions throughout our evaluation. Unfortunately, SmartDeblur is pretty unreliable. Users should look into other similar but more stable apps for removing the blur effect from photos.