May I make a couple of suggestions? When you start your scanning play a little first to get the feel of what you want to achieve. Then when you start the serious scanning consider saving as bitmaps - bmp - rather than jpg and as large as you can. I try to create 2 to 4 meg scans so that I have a good sized file to work on as Iowagirl suggests. You can then always make them smaller without loss of quality if you need to at any time. Also if you re-work any of them create a copy first so the original never gets messed up and is available. Is there damage other than fading to any of the photos?

I found the info and will paste at the end of this post but the picture can be pretty big. salbwil just tell us what program you are using to resize and right click on the picture and click properties on the drop down menu and tell us what size it is. Here are the posting instructions from the webmaster at hearth.com: OK, so hereÂs the deal - your member photos (in your member profile) is limited to a small size - about 150 pixels (dots) square. The little Avatar next to your posts is limited to the same or maybe 100 each way..... Regular pictures, like in this forum, can be fairly large - almost full screen (1000 wide by 1000 high) and up to 200KB (200,000 bytes). But, many folks donÂt know the basics of email and web pics - IÂll try to explain. Pictures sent to the web and by email are best at what is called "screen resolution" meaning that they somewhat match the size od the dots on our monitors. For our purposes, this is aout 72 DPI (or dots per inch)..... What the average person needs is an "Image Management Program" and NOT the one that comes with Windows! If you are a PC user, download the free program called Picasa - This will organize and store all the photos on your disk and also allow you to export smaller copies (for web, etc.) and to even fix the photos up a bit! Apple users already have an image management program, iPhoto, which comes with every mac. To prepare web photos in iPhoto, simply select the photo or photos, go to Export (or it might say Share in newer versions) and when the dialog box comes up use the part that says "scale no bigger than" to select what you want the size of the exported photo to be. For purposes of this board, a photo with a width of 400-700 is ideal. Now, with Picasa, it is pretty much the same thing. Select the photo or photos and go to Export to Folder- the box shown in the picture below will come up and then you can select the picture size - say 480 wide as in this example. The other slider will compress the file size so the picture loads faster. In most cases, anything over 50% is good. If you want to learn more about this stuff, dig around on the links at: http://www.hearth.com/hcc/ - these are links from a course I teach at night school. If you are a user of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, use the "Image Size" dialog bx to convert your photo to 72 DPI and approx. 400-600 pixels wide (the height will work out automatically) - then use "Save for Web" and tryjpg "medium", file size should be really small. Of course, donÂt save changes to the original picture since you still want that big on your computer and for yourarhiving and storage.

Hi everyone, thanks for your info. DA, I only use a BW alternative when the copy needs to have a professional appearance, the item being scanned is on colored paper; i.e. yellow or pink receipts, or if I have advanced notice that the document will be duplicated. The document was to be duplicated and that is why I set it to black and white. Have you tried saving the scan as a rich text? Or better yet a HTML file? No I am not sure how to do that. I think it is automatically set up but without looking I am not sure. I will have to try it out again and see about that. What does setting it to rich text or HTML file do? Urlee, I usually save as a file. Then send as an attachment. I use grayscale opposed to black & white. I did save it as a file, right clicked and sent it as an attachment to my email. I am thinking that it didn't scan right and the preview is to small for me to actually make it out. Owbist, It was not a colored document nor was it a photo as stayed above. It was a very important document that I was trying to send back to a company. They sent it to me I was to sign it and return it back to them. I had done it many times before and no one had said it was fuzzy until this last time. That's what made me think that maybe I had changed a setting when working with something else and I was trying to figure out how to change it back. Bob, I can't see the logic in saving a B&W document as a BMP file. I prefer to scan in either gray scale or picture and saving in JPG, and if its going to be edited then I'll OCR to text. "LOL" with me logic has nothing to do with it, I just used what was there without fully understanding it all. How do you OCR to text? I see OCR but am not sure what it does. For everyone to know I did a project for my sister using pictures of her deceased husband and arranging them in a certain order. He was retired military and I wanted to do something very special for her. It all turned out nicely and she was very happy with it. It was after I did the project that the text became fuzzy and that is why I am thinking I must have changed the settings because I was doing the project and scanning the pictures and saving it to my scans file & now I can't seem to figure out how to get it back like it was. I was trying to email it to her and making changes as I went and finally had to just print it out and take it to her when I went to the service. Maybe I should ask what the standard settings should be when doing normal text that you want to email to someone, that wants to print it out on their end. I don't think it is the scanner nor the printer, I think it is something that I changed. I don't know what the normal settings should be are they the same with all scanners? Did I just make any sense here with my explanation? "Smiles" Please bare with me for the next couple of days, if I don't get back to you right away. I have to have dental surgery later this morning. If you wouldn't mind I would like for someone to bump this up every so often, so that I don't lose this post. I want to read your responses and get back to you as soon as possible. Hopefully in a couple of days. Thanks to everyone who posted to my thread here. I hope I didn't miss answering anyone. thirdfrt!!!

Hey, thanks for giving me some info I didn't have. Like you note, Picasa is ok if you don't need some of the bells and whistles the more complete photo editing programs offer. Next time I need more, I'll have your link from this thread. Thanks.