Help with enhancing a photo

[Matt]

Picasa has some rudimentary photo enhancing ability (sharpening, etc.) and is free. If you're looking for the kind of thing you see on CSI, where blurry text magically becomes clear, in which case, I would suggest you go to the CBS studios

[bmarlowe1]

What Matt is saying is that the impression given on CSI type shows as to what can be done with low-res images does not represent reality. You can't recreate visual information that was lost in the reprodution of the image - it's gone. All you can do is sharpen things up a bit. In this case it probably won't help you much.

[drc]

Changing contrast might help a little.

In real crime scenes, forenic examiner change contrast and lighting sources to make things stand out/contrast from the background-- stuff like eyelashes and blood stainss. But that 's when looking in person physical objects. Stuff in a photo would be different.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Matt

Picasa has some rudimentary photo enhancing ability (sharpening, etc.) and is free. If you're looking for the kind of thing you see on CSI, where blurry text magically becomes clear, in which case, I would suggest you go to the CBS studios

Originally Posted by bmarlowe1

What Matt is saying is that the impression given on CSI type shows as to what can be done with low-res images does not represent reality. You can't recreate visual information that was lost in the reprodution of the image - it's gone. All you can do is sharpen things up a bit. In this case it probably won't help you much.

As a software developer, I always cringe when I hear those familiar phrases "Zoom in right there!", and "Enhance it!"

[Abravefan11]

Email me the highest resolution scan you can and I will be happy to try and help you.

[rhettyeakley]

What!?! CSI has been lying to me all these years?

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

What!?! CSI has been lying to me all these years?

I have long suspected that DNA results weren't available in 7 minutes, either!

[M's_Fan]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

I have long suspected that DNA results weren't available in 7 minutes, either!

Memorial Day is ruined now for all of us!

[nebboy]

Photoshop has a feature called sharpen, but without going into to detail the answer is it can not/will not help. Every scan or print (generation) made from the original is only going to loose information. Also a little trick is to you can view it in reverse negative so see it a little diffrent.

But if you cant see it with a 10X loop no software will help.