Rescuing overcompressed images

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JimMKM
Jan 14, 2004
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Hallo!

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for rescuing images such as http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2016/xclaw.jpg (from thi page: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2016/talons.html (to image)) from the awful "checkerboard" effect they have? I was tryin to use it for a quick Pshop piece I was doing
http://www.arcade-image.com/griffin_pshop_2.jpg and, as you can see, i doesn’t look great. Obviously theres no way of getting them perfectl sharp like an uncompressed hi res image would look, but is there a goo way of getting rid of the almost "canvassy" look the image has

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Voivod
Jan 14, 2004
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:06:03 -0600, JimMKM
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Hallo!

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for rescuing images such as: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2016/xclaw.jpg (from this page: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2016/talons.html (top image)) from the awful "checkerboard" effect they have? I was trying to use it for a quick Pshop piece I was doing:
http://www.arcade-image.com/griffin_pshop_2.jpg and, as you can see, it doesn’t look great. Obviously theres no way of getting them perfectly sharp like an uncompressed hi res image would look, but is there a good way of getting rid of the almost "canvassy" look the image has?

Why don’t you write to the owner and ask if he/she minds if you use his image and then if he/she doesn’t mind ask if they have a better version.
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Robert Lee
Jan 14, 2004
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http://www.arcade-image.com/griffin_pshop_2.jpg and, as you can see, it doesn’t look great. Obviously theres no way of getting them perfectly sharp like an uncompressed hi res image would look, but is there a good way of getting rid of the almost "canvassy" look the image has?

Er…that "canvassy" look isn’t due to compression. There’s your first clue.

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JimMKM
Jan 16, 2004
Robert Lee wrote:
*JimMKM wrote in
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Er…that "canvassy" look isn’t due to compression. There’s you first
clue.
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Fair enough – where the heck is it from then

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JimMKM
Jan 16, 2004
Voivod wrote:
*On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:06:03 -0600, JimMKM
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Why don’t you write to the owner and ask if he/she minds if you use his image and then if he/she doesn’t mind ask if they have a better version. *

Don’t be faceatious – have a look round the site – the owner certainl doesn’t own the images themselves, god knows where they originally cam from

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