Mombo remember when you scan printed material you are scanning the dot stucture of that material and the surface of tha material (ie beaded, dust, fingerprints). Some scanners have different settings (filters) when scanning published materials as opposed to an actual photographs that help in those scans...

I use Genuine Fractals (Photoshop Plugin) on just about all of the images that I work with.. It is great for resizing without loss of quality. The Altamira company is now owned by Lizardtech and information on all of their products can be found here..

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I am waiting for them to come out with a version that works with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), in the meantime my Mac OS 9.2 version works Great!!