You may be able to make the faint images more legible by increasing the GAMMA (ratio) which is the number of midtone pixels divided by the number of pure white (or black) pixels. I suggest that you download the free program IRFANVIEW (available at www.irfanview.com) which can handle this under IMAGE/ENHANCE . The program is about 800K and the Extensions less than 5 Megs. It also is self-contained (no dlls) so it leaves no footprints if you later remove it. This program can do many great things but is worth having just for its easy resizing of picture to send on the web (600X800). You check file associations in a list (TIF, GIF, JPEG, etc) and then if one arises Irfanview handles it. If you don't like what it does then you uncheck the extension (Jpg? etc) and your computer reverts. Once you improve the image use SAVE AS to a new place or with a changed name--eg. Page5 ENHANCED. Fred Beal gailbeal@vif.com (My wife Gail does the geneology!)