singhals wrote: > SNIP > EXCELLENT Idea. > > http://bottonycross.purpleflowers.net/birthday/ > > Birthday6 is the cake picture and the one I'm most interested in getting > cleaned up. The burning candles "flare" :( The flash failed to > function at all. > > Birthday15 would be nice to have, and is offered in case someone wants > to try their hand there too. The flash was early. > > The camera was a fairly inexpensive one meant for point'n'shoot which is > my style with pictures. It had been working fine up until the day these > were taken when it began eating a battery an hour. It _has_ been > replaced. (g) > > Cheryl They do not look like they are the original picture files as they came out of the camera. You have renamed them - did you do that in an image editing program - if so they've possibly be compressed. The file sizes are extremely small. Have you resized them or done anything else to them. Can you replace these with the original files?

john wrote: > singhals wrote: > >> SNIP > >> EXCELLENT Idea. >> >> http://bottonycross.purpleflowers.net/birthday/ >> >> Birthday6 is the cake picture and the one I'm most interested in >> getting cleaned up. The burning candles "flare" :( The flash failed >> to function at all. >> >> Birthday15 would be nice to have, and is offered in case someone wants >> to try their hand there too. The flash was early. >> >> The camera was a fairly inexpensive one meant for point'n'shoot which >> is my style with pictures. It had been working fine up until the day >> these were taken when it began eating a battery an hour. It _has_ >> been replaced. (g) >> >> Cheryl > > They do not look like they are the original picture files as they came > out of the camera. > You have renamed them - did you do that in an image editing program - if > so they've possibly be compressed. The file sizes are extremely small. > Have you resized them or done anything else to them. > Can you replace these with the original files? Even the originals aren't of very high quality! I found a little bit of colour in the cake (but possibly not the correct colour) Any hints as to the correct colours and it might be possible to do a bit more but there is very little detail and the candle flare has burnt out most detail http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa22/elsiesphotos/IMG_0182a.jpg http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa22/elsiesphotos/IMG_0190a.jpg I did this to the original cake photo before I noticed it wasn't the original - but there is even less detail because of the candle brightness. http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa22/elsiesphotos/birthday6a.jpg If you want to e-mail me any others I'll have a quick look at them.