Blurry Pic, Need Help

Hi,

I have a friend who's wife was at her son's graduation to High School (I know, not really graduation, but whatever.) Anyways, the wife was taking pictures, and when it was time for her son to receive the certificate, she took a picture, but it turned out messed up (moving while snapping a shot). She got so upset as she didn't have another chance to take a shot (big audience, lots of people graduating). The wife came to me to ask if I could fix it, I said I will try. I am not sure of what to do on how to fix the picture. Could anyone help me fix it?

Unfortunately motion blur is virtually impossible to remove from an image - you may be able to use selective sharpening to correct some but this is designed for correcting slight focusing errors, so will always be limited in effectiveness.

one thing that may be possible is to re shoot the major characters and paste in these to the image - major work I'm afraid

Oh well, thanks for trying to help.

Have downloaded image will try and see what can be done - some improvement may be possible - but cannot promise

Thanks man, I really appreciate it. I tried messing around on Photoshop a bit but I was unsuccessful.

OK, Have had a look but unfortunately there is not enough detail to work with there is simply too much movement
the only option would be to take another image of the young graduate and blend this into the blurred image

Oh well, its ok. Thanks :).