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Dr. Botha, > I am trying to scan some color photos on a Scanjet IIcx. The pictures, however, come up with > some "pixelization" or pixel blemishes, reminiscend of scanning from magazine photos. I am > scanning at 125 dpi, with normal sharpening and millions of color settings. I can get rid of the > pixel blemishes by converting the picture to 256 colors , using Paintshop. The problem is that it > is not in 16M colors anymore. What can I do to get rid of the "pixels" in the original scan ? Our WinImages product can do this for you, and very well, in addition to a number of other touch-up level operations you will very likely find useful. It has filters such as gaussian blur, nice for some types of aliasing; it has "remove feature", which is _ideal_ for removal of spots – that feature intelligently lifts blemishes off the image and replaces the affected region with an optimum set of pixels generated by looking at the surrounding area (in all directions). Lots of other image postprocessing you could use like contrast, gamma, histogram equalization, color balancing, tinting, monochrome/luma conversions, duo/tri/quad/etc tones, fills, dynamic range control… I could go on and on. 🙂 And there are tons of special effects, too… you didn't mention any need for such, so I'll not go into them at this point. WinImages works in 24 bit accuracy and can creat output in a number of useful file formats. It's priced way down in the "grab it" range, too. If you'd like more details, I'll be happy to provide them. Ben Williams for Black Belt Systems