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Old January 28th 04, 07:12 PM
Alan
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"Carrie Lyons" wrote in message ...
I've got an unusual suggestion.

Print out the picture at its natural size on photo paper.

Using good lighting, take a hi-res picture of the picture.
A 3.4 megapixel or greater camera, possibly using a closeup lens.

Print that out at a larger size, a size that still seems to
have all the detail. Repeat until you get the size you want.

I'm not sure why this works, but it does.


If you have PhotoShop or something similar, you can achieve the same
effect with various filters, much faster. For instance, Gaussian blur
with a radius of 1-2 pixels (experiment: undo, redo to get the right
figure); (that achieves the smoothing out that printing and
photographing does) or descreening; then sharpening and adjusting
contrast. After all, the idea of PhotoShop is to provide digital
methods to do all the photo manipulation in seconds that would have
taken hours in the lab.