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
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