Bill, This is a frequent problem with pics that are scanned at a low dpi. The minimum should be 300 dpi and they should be saved as TIFFs. TIFF is a lossless, high quality format; JPEG, on the other hand, can lose pixels every time you reproduce it. Rescanning a bad scan just adds insult to injury. You continue to lose pixels and once gone, you can't put them back. That's why you can't turn a good 72 dpi web picture into a dazzling 300 dpi print. When you do the enlarging on the 72 dpi print all you do is enlarge the pixels. That's what makes them fuzzy. Anyone who is good with a photo program such as PhotoShop can make them into really decent pics by adjusting the contrast and other settings, cloning damaged portions of the photos, etc. If the person who scanned them will rescan them at 300 dpi and put them on a disk, I'm sure someone with PhotoShop can improve them for you. Just remember: Never work on the original. Save a copy and work on that. If you mess up the copy either don't save the changes or dump it and make another copy of the original to work on. I've taken high quality scans of damaged tintypes of family members and been able to restore them electronically to the point it's hard to realize how damaged they were. The secret is getting a good, high-quality scan in the first place.Louise
From: caver@caver.netTo: texascavers@texascavers.comCC: nmca...@caver.net; pbss@caver.netDate: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:08:38 -0600Subject: [Texascavers] Fw: Fw:Scanned & Re-scanned pics [CAVE RELATED] All, These are some very poor quality black and white pictures that were scanned, printed and mailed to me and I re-scanned them. They were taken by either Jack Burch and or Roger Hostenback or maybe others in the mid year 1956 at Secret Cave aka Mayfield Cave which is better known today as Caverns of Sonora... Roger sent them to me as he is a long time friend of my parents, I had no idea he caved and recently found out we had something beside Amateur Radio in common. He also mined Guano out of New Cave ( Slaughter Canyon Cave) in 1955 on the weekends... Enjoy and I wish they were better quality.... Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Bentley To: Carl Kunath Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 5:00 PM Subject: Fw:Scanned & Re-scanned pics ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Bentley To: Bill Bentley Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:48 PM http://www.caver.net/images/image1-sonora56.jpg http://www.caver.net/images/image2-sonora56.jpg http://www.caver.net/images/image3-sonora56.jpg http://www.caver.net/images/image4-sonora56.jpg http://www.caver.net/images/image5-sonora56.jpg http://www.caver.net/images/image6-sonora56.jpg