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Enhancing poorly scanned images?

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  • 13-04-2019 6:40pm
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    NCW feen
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭


    I have some team photos that I found online on a newspaper archives site but they are very unclear. Anyone know of anything I can access for free online to make these scanned images a lot clearer?
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    mordeith
    Registered Users Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    NCW feen wrote: »
    I have some team photos that I found online on a newspaper archives site but they are very unclear. Anyone know of anything I can access for free online to make these scanned images a lot clearer?
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    If the original scan is that bad there's not much you can do. Adjusting the contrast might help a little but it's like the saying 'you can't polish a turd'


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    Xterminator
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    photo editing tools can clean up and improve a bit.

    but you cannot make a 300dpi scan photo quality, and photos from a newspaper would probably be very low quality indeed.

    you could contact the publisher and ask for a copy of original photos?


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