I recently heard that the best way to reduce a large file to one that's substantially smaller is by using a step-by-step process rather than just making the reduction in one step. I've numerous 4000ppi scanned B&W film images of about 40mb and I want to reduce it to 100ppi with a wide dimension of 800-900 pixels. Does anyone know what the procedure is for doing a step-by-step reduction? I tried it by going from 4000ppi to 2000ppi to 1000ppi, etc., but the results were soft and mushy. Is there a better way to reduce the size and rez of such files?
Shel
