Greetings, earnest but ignorant one. ...OK all -- am I who has to exibit the 'tough love' here and explain to the young man about how 'unsharp mask' works? ...How PhotoShop is used to RESTORE image sharpness BACK (just don't over-do it!) to what it looked like before the photograph was RAVAGED by a scanner? ...How PhotoShop's 'levels' allow a crummy hundred and fifty dollar computer monitor to actually DISPLAY some of the details in areas of a conventional photographic print that would otherwise be completely outside of gamut of said monitor? ...How scanning HUGE, and using a world class resampling algorithm, like that in PiantShop Pro (OK, let's not forget PaintShop Pro) will produce a TRUER representation of the original than just 'scanning it small'? OK, I've beat him up for a while -- someone else chime in here once, hey. ...OK, I'm wound a little tight now. ..anyway -- boy, for all he don't know, those pictures look pretty good, huh? Joe