I realize there may be no solution to my problem, but here it is: I have a copy of a 10 year old colour photo that I would like to fix up in PS3. My printer / scanner is a 5 or 6 year old HP K60. Original looks ok, but when I scan, it is horribly blurry and spotty. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I may be able to get a better quality scanned photo to work on, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks in advance! Sue

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From sheenawilkie/Administrator (0) on October 4, 2008 3:50:40 PM CDT Sue if you're able to you might want to consider getting your photo lab to scan it, they can do a great job for a pretty reasonable price. I got rid of my scanner and get the lab to do any scanning I require now. Cheers! Reply

From taketwo/Sue (2,230) on October 4, 2008 4:21:30 PM CDT Thanks sheena. How do you get it into your computer to work on? Reply

From sheenawilkie/Administrator (0) on October 4, 2008 4:27:48 PM CDT The lab scans it for me and puts it on a CD, then I copy the file off the CD onto my computer's hard drive :-) Easy peasy! Reply

From taketwo/Sue (2,230) on October 4, 2008 5:01:26 PM CDT Sounds like just what the doctor ordered! Thanks a bunch. Reply

From sheenawilkie/Administrator (0) on October 4, 2008 5:12:19 PM CDT Good luck! Reply

From de3euk/Gert (5,167) on October 5, 2008 5:45:27 AM CDT This is what HP has to say about it... I'd like to add that blurry and spotty might also be the result of the scanning software, turn off all scratch and grain corrections and see what comes up then. In the end I'd say follow Sheena's advice, you will get better results from the photo scanner they are using compared to the all-in-on you have yourself. If you have many photos to scan it might be economical to get your own dedicated photo scanner. Reply

From taketwo/Sue (2,230) on October 5, 2008 5:55:41 AM CDT Gert,thanks so much for your help. I will play with it some more. Sue Reply

From swanda/John (1,023) on October 5, 2008 9:00:55 AM CDT I don't have a print scanner, so when I need to digitize a print, I just shoot it with my DSLR. You just need even lighting and get the photos square in the camera. Depending on how good a camera you have, it might be better than your scanner. After all, that's how we made copy negatives back in the old film days. Reply

From taketwo/Sue (2,230) on October 5, 2008 9:16:47 AM CDT Didn't think of that. thanks, John! Reply

From apeture/Eugene (2,146) on October 16, 2008 12:25:48 PM CDT I used my old digital camera to scan a picture. The results were much better than my cheap scanner and the pic was good quality. Reply

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