I am no expert, but I did get a black and white picture and had the printer increase it in size on real special bond like paper. It turned out really neat. I then proceeded to tint it with Marshall photo tinting pencils and now have it framed. It is a picture of my grandmother's sister that is probably about 110 years old. The xerox seemed to bring out the details beyond belief. I have also had great luck with the oil paints on old pictures (not glossy ones) and the ones I have that are sepia turn out wonderful. It is a great past time and it makes the genealogy stories come alive when the pictures are inserted into the scrapbooks I am doing. I've got a picture that shows my dad's uncle standing beside the trolley he ran back in IN, so I am researching to learn what colors to use on this photo. I received a colored picture from Germany last year over my computer. It was done from a photograph of an oil painting of my gr grandfather that is on the mantel of his old house still standing in Ocsenfurt where a nephew lives. It is just amazing what these jpeg pictures create in our minds. I am 69 years old and this is the very first picture anyone in the family ever saw of the old grandfather. Amazing. I don't yet have a scanner, but there are some websites that will help you, I feel confident. My husband is anxious for me to get these pictures I have off the wall, there are sooooooo many of them, and get them into books with the genealogy family histories. I warned him he'd have to live with lots of shelves when that occurs! ---------- > From: R. Sheldon <rpshel@frontiernet.net> > To: OHLICKIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Pictures > Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 12:02 PM > > > This site has so many interesting genies on it, I hope someone will have an > answer. I found the letter by Barb Jamison on her picture interesting. > I, too, just recently was sent an e-mail attachment which had on it a 130+ > old picture. This took me into two weeks research on finding its age and > learning how to read the picture (jpeg file), print it out and other > problems. I live near a large metro area where computers dominate industry > but it has been a major problem to find someone who could give me a good > affordable print of a historical picture. Does anyone know of web sites > where I can get some consumer lessons on scanning and printing digital > photos and what I can expect in enhancing and restoring them? > > Pat Sheldon