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Hi !
I have 2 questions for the gurus:
A. I am in the middle of digitalizing really old pictures, some of them dating back to the 19th century, and trying to "clean" them up a bit.
You know, old pictures have those dot and such, and I am trying to figure out a way to clean them up without losing any quality.
As I understand it, every time we crop a picture, rotate it, or clean it, most graphic programs actually throw away a bit of the details. As the cropping, cleaning, resizing increases, more details are lost.
Since these are valuable family pictures, I wish to preserve as much as I can.
In other words, I am looking for a program which preserve as much quality as it can while allowing me to do cropping, cleaning, resizing, and whatnot.
Is there such program out there? If so, please tell me.
I am willing to buy the program. Either Windows or Mac or Unix platform.
B. Some of the old photographs are small, and I mean, REALLY SMALL. Like 1 inch by 1.5 inch !
Even when I max out the pixel in the scanning process, those tiny pictures REMAIN small.
But when I enlarge them, that is, resize them to bigger dimension, such as from 1in X 1.5in to 3in X 4.5in, the result became very grainy.
Need to know if there is a program which can help me blow up small pictures while not resulting in coarse grained picture.
If you know of such a program, please kindly tell me.
And yes, I am willing to buy it.
Thank you all for your help !!
Best regards.
I have 2 questions for the gurus:
A. I am in the middle of digitalizing really old pictures, some of them dating back to the 19th century, and trying to "clean" them up a bit.
You know, old pictures have those dot and such, and I am trying to figure out a way to clean them up without losing any quality.
As I understand it, every time we crop a picture, rotate it, or clean it, most graphic programs actually throw away a bit of the details. As the cropping, cleaning, resizing increases, more details are lost.
Since these are valuable family pictures, I wish to preserve as much as I can.
In other words, I am looking for a program which preserve as much quality as it can while allowing me to do cropping, cleaning, resizing, and whatnot.
Is there such program out there? If so, please tell me.
I am willing to buy the program. Either Windows or Mac or Unix platform.
B. Some of the old photographs are small, and I mean, REALLY SMALL. Like 1 inch by 1.5 inch !
Even when I max out the pixel in the scanning process, those tiny pictures REMAIN small.
But when I enlarge them, that is, resize them to bigger dimension, such as from 1in X 1.5in to 3in X 4.5in, the result became very grainy.
Need to know if there is a program which can help me blow up small pictures while not resulting in coarse grained picture.
If you know of such a program, please kindly tell me.
And yes, I am willing to buy it.
Thank you all for your help !!
Best regards.
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