Iceman's got such a backlog of processing to do that I thought I'd have a play with the scanner and the software [Paint Shop Pro v5.03, if you're interested]. The software's out of the Ark - copyright Noah - but Iceman knows what he wants from it so we stick with it.

But I was fed up with two things - the blocky sharpening and the bleed-through of what's printed on the other side of the page. And - result :) on both problems.

PSP sharpens on an 8x8 pixel grid, starting top left - so for sharpening, do it gently, rotate 90 degrees, sharpen gently, repeat until sharp enough. The only 8x8 blockiness present at the end is the last - all the others had a different grid. So now I crop the image until it's divisible by 3 for both height and width before starting to sharpen.

I figured the bleed-through might be increased by the fact that the scanner [cheapie A4 flatbed Epson XP-435] has a shiny white foam pad under the lid. So I tried inserting a plain black sheet of card to stop the reflection - result :)

So - both the scanning and the image processing will be slower, and we'll have to revisit our favourite images to do them again.

If any of you want any particular images re-done - LET US KNOW! [Perhaps it's your mum, your granny, your wife or your daughter!]

Cheers :)