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Enhancing poorly scanned images?

  • 13-04-2019 05:40PM
    #1
    NCW feen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • #2
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭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?
    Reply

    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'


  • #3
    Xterminator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭Xterminator


    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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