I do a lot of old image enhancement. I don't know that my image software is better or worse than other brands. However, I use Paint Shop Pro Version 5. The most frequent enhancement command I use is Colors - adjust. Quite often IMAGE - noise - despeckle. This command however can also dull the detail. I bring the images home from the LDS film viewer that has a computer attached and scans directly to my thumb drive. In many cases however, I find that the image right there at the LDS center on the viewer is hard to beat; It's just that, given the fairly restricted hours of opening of my local LDS center, when I am doing a large scale data extraction I spend all my time at the center just grabbing hundreds of images, then at home I scan through them. I notice that you say "JPG". I hate JPG files and that shadowy ghost image around everything. I do my capturing in BMP or TIFF (even though they are large) then at home, after enhancing, go to shades of grey, 16 color, and make a permanent storage in .PNG format. Which broadly speaking is as small as the files can get without losing detail. I would be most interested to hear recommendations from others on this tech issue. Hugh Tornabene **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)