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What of my clients has asked me if I can improve the picture quality on his website, as some of the photos look slighlty "blurred".

This is what I currently do with pictures:

I scanned the photos
Saved them as bitmaps
Resized the pictures to suit the website and saved as jepegs
Placed and uploaded onto website

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Is there a better way I can do this to improve the quality of the pictures?
Or is this bloke just being fussy?!

Thanks for your help

BTW, your JPG compression is too high. Do it between 80 and 90, or use GIFs.

100s

Fortunately, all this can be done with the GIMP, free from gimp.org. It's second best, but hey, it's free!

How much is Photoshop?

Are we talking 10's or 100's of pounds here?

Thanks

Dav1d (17 with no cash!)

Dav1d wrote:
> OK cheers Ill have a go later

Ideally you nees Photoshop for this..

Scan @ 200dpi

Adjust the levels and curves ont he image

Resamplw forst to 72 then Resize

Add a little Guassian Bluur @ 0.1 pixles

Then play with the unsharp mask...

If you have too mauch hassle, send them to me with the sizes and I'll do them for you in pS

[email protected]

OK cheers Ill have a go later

Hmmmm... Are these proper photos or are they in a printed magazine? If they are in a printed magazine, see if your scanner has a "screen" setting that you can adjust.

Also, what resolution are you scanning at? Personally, I scan at a fairly high res (say 100-150dpi) then do all I need to do to the image, then drop the resolution to 72dpi. Though Tyla may have a better way.

If you are using Photoshop what picture quality are you going for? Up it to the best quality you can get.

Failing any of that, plus what Tyla mentioned below, your client is most likely being fussy. Can you point us to an example on a website?

Example:

http://www.villagedevelopments.com/oakfield_interior.htm

The rest of the pictures on the site seem to be ok.
I think the main problem was the quality of the actual photo he scanned, plus the fact they are quite bright pictures.

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Dont have Photoshop :-(

Do you have an example... What you using to manipulate them. Try "Unsharp Mask" in Photoshop

What of my clients has asked me if I can improve the picture quality on his website, as some of the photos look slighlty "blurred".

This is what I currently do with pictures:

I scanned the photos
Saved them as bitmaps
Resized the pictures to suit the website and saved as jepegs
Placed and uploaded onto website

---

Is there a better way I can do this to improve the quality of the pictures?
Or is this bloke just being fussy?!

Thanks for your help