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Originally Posted by bobj3 Hi Joe
Well the BMP's don't do the trick,,,, it needs to be the best picture it can be,,jpg are just about the best so far ,psd work well ,also .psp, it needs all the dots it can get.
The image needs to be sharp and clean,without any background dots/noise.
I have been down on bmp's , I just never liked Paint or MS software for that type of job,it's always been a be lame, the new MS Paint can now do jpg's but it took MS years for that part.
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Bob, jpg's, depending on your software, will get saved worse & worse each time you "Save" them... if you start with a perfect High resol. file and you have no control of what resol. you are saving in, your 100% will drop to 75% after the first Save... then lower on next Save, etc. That is the Nature of JPG's to squeeze every little
BIT it can out of file and STILL result in a reasonably well looking picture.
For what you're doing, you DO NOT want to be doing that. Read my lips... If you want to stay with JPG, be sure the first file, or scan was Saved to be the highest resolution possible, that means NO BIT SAVING IS BEING DONE TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF THE FILE. If you can do that, your pic. will remain high in resolution as good as it was when you started.
With BMP's there are NOT any file size reduction algorithyms being used... once a bit is a set bit, it will remain that way until changed by you... period.
Photoshop 7 will give you the choice of the JPG resolution desired... High res. = largest file... Low res. = Smallest file... Medium res. = guess...
Your SAFEST bet is with a format that is NOT COMPRESSED IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM.
Any other NOISE that is present at the highes res., probably came from the camera and requires bit by bit modification (editting)... to get it CLEAN.
Just for the fun of it, run Paint (or any other program you want)... boost the ZOOM to 8x where you can see every pixel very easily... then start panning around areas that should be really solid... to see gobbs of pixels messing it up... around lines or going from one subject part to another... like from finger to background... any messed up pixels around these areas should fixed so they get "carved" into your wood.
That's the point I'm trying to make.
Good luck...
edit: every version of MS PAINT I have ever used, has been able to handle JPG's... it's better now than it used to be... BUT still no cigar... ergo, BMP.