At 10:27 AM 3/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>> On my screen your pics look kind of grainy. Would that be because of
>[snip] your scanner?
>
> I suspect the scanner -- they look worse on the monitor at home,
>annoyingly, and the original images are fine. I guess I should try scanning
>them in at higher resolution then scaling them down, rather than scanning
>directly to the final size.
You can get "aliasing" effects on the grain if you sample too low.
Over-sampling and then a down-sample with proper anti-alias filtering
will produce the best result. The anti-alias filter smooths or averages
samples together before reducing the sample rate.
Wayne
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