Well right know I don't want to spend on a new scanner, I rather save for a film scanner. I was given this tip. Ric Kelly - 11:45pm Dec 6, 2000 Pacific (#1 of 3) One thing you can try is make the image RGB. Duplicate the image on a new layer so you have two copies of the photo in teo layers. on the top layer, apply the median filter and guassian blur to soften the image quite a bit. Set the blending mode to color. You can see how much it improves the image by looking at the individual channels and making the top layer hidden and visible. I find this not only cleans up noise, but also adds detail to the blue channel