I've been trying to scan a few pictures w/ an HP scan jet; and when I look at the image on the scanjet software, it looks very sharp. When I look at the picture on internet explorer, it looks like the pixels are HUGE.... it looks like I'm looking at the image on an old IBM XT or someting, or an Atari.... very blocky. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks Phillip

-- Phillip Silitschanu (speedin_saab@hotmail.com), January 27, 2002

Answers

What's the resolution you're at? screen resolution is 72DPI, scanning something lower, if that's possible, would cause such a phenomenon, I guess.

-- Tom Nutter (tmnphotos@erols.com), January 27, 2002.

That's hard to say, Phillip. I'm not familiar with the HP software, but could be that the ScanJet software is automatically reducing the image for display. Once scanned, try bringing the image up in a photo editor like Photoshop, and use it to resize the image for appropriate Web display (most prefer something like 500 pixels or so on the long side).

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), January 27, 2002.

Phillip,

I believe the HP scans to a bitmap image file by default (at least that was the default on mine). If you scan to a JPEG file, you will find that the quality of the resulting file is better and that the size of the file is smaller.

If you are scanning to a JPEG file now, than I do not know what could be causing the problem.

-Nick

-- Nicholas Wybolt (nwybolt@earthlink.net), January 27, 2002.