Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!gcf
From: gcf@cci632.cci.com (Greg Fairbrother)
Subject: info on scanning portrait photographs
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.152234.14714@cci632.cci.com>
Reply-To: gcf@ccird7.UUCP (Greg Fairbrother)
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. an STC company, Rochester, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 15:22:34 GMT

I am trying to get a good scan of some portrait photographs which have a
matte surface which is very bumpy.   I am using a Howtek scanner with 
RIO software.  The images are what you would find available in a Sears
or Kmart photo studios.  The scanned images do not look very good as 
they have this effect created from this matte surface.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a DOS software package, a different
scanner, or a technique which would give us better scanned images.
I cannot get these pictures in a different surface texture as I am 
stuck with this bumpy matte surface.

thanks.

Greg Fairbrother
gcf@cci.com