I meant jagged lines not squares

I meant jagged lines
Are you talking about the custom paint job on the walls?

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Oh to be young again! Grady

How was the original photo taken? Was it a digital or roll film camera? Being no expert but trying to rationalise I suspect it was originally a digital photo taken on a camera that was set at it's very lowest settings.

I took the photo and blew it up 300% and 500% and the young ladies faces became badly pixelated. The circles on the light coloured walls are the spread of the flash, they do not seem to show on the darker elements of the photo.

As I said, this is guess work. I feel the photo had been printed from digital and sent to you, you in turn tried scanning it. Each time these things happen a photo degrades. Plus it was probably scanned as a jpg, try scanning again but save as a bitmap (bmp) as these are a better quality than jpg. The improvement will only be modest at best if any.

owbist...looking at the print your flash-spread theory seems to fit and yes it was a print from digital.
I've never seen that affect before, I thought my scanner was acting up.
Thanks

Can't you get the original digital file emailed to you? Then you could do what you want and probably with a far better quality than you have now. Just a thought.