I am working on a cemetery survey project. I have photos of gravestones that I scan into my computer, tweak with Adobe Photoshop Elements. This I am happy with. I am scanning at 300 dpi, grayscale. Then, I import the picture into Mircosoft Word adding the inscription to the page. The quality of the photo in Word is poor compared to the quality of the image in Adobe. Is there some way to correct this difference? Thanks in advance, Deb

Deb, Some image printing products "downsize" pictures better than others. You might have better results with smaller images that are the "right" size to print in Word. I usually edit pictures to 100 dpi for Word documents printed with color ink jet, but even more often use a genealogy program with sort by date and captions. Size of the original picture isn't too critical for the program that I use as long as it is under about 1600x1200 pixels or 900 kb as a standard JPG. Some of my genealogy scrapbooks are prints of digital camera pictures. Another current project has nearly 300 images, mostly newspaper clippings, sorted by date for the same man. Genealogy program is good for *growing* collectings of census scans and other collections of pictures because they can be added in random order and printed by category. Scrapbooks can be saved as PDF files using a less expensive product than Word. If you want to print an image 4 inches high (or wide) in Word, try 400 pixels. One of the local book authors uses inches x 72 for pictures added to Adobe PageMaker. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deb Inman" > I am working on a cemetery survey project. I have > photos of gravestones that I scan into my computer, > tweak with Adobe Photoshop Elements. This I am happy > with. I am scanning at 300 dpi, grayscale. Then, I > import the picture into Mircosoft Word adding the > inscription to the page. The quality of the photo in > Word is poor compared to the quality of the image in > Adobe. Is there some way to correct this difference?

Hi Deb I've used Word since DOS and I've never had this problem but here are a couple of ideas you might try. It may be a scale problem. If you're probably inserting the pictures then resizing them, Word has to interpolate the dpi for the picture and may be making the images "fuzzy" and lacking the definition of the original. Try sizing your images in Photoshop so that they are the same size when you save them as you want them to be in Word. You may have to experiment till you find what works. You may also reducing your resolution to 200 dpi as this is usually all that's needed for printing. You might also try saving in a different format. Typically pictures are saved as JPG, which I'm assuming is what your saving them as. Try saving the pictures as a GIF for or a Compressed TIF file and see how they look. For some reason photos saved as GIF file tend to look better in PowerPoint so it may be the same in Word. Something else you may try is to scan in full color then convert the image to greyscale in Photoshop. Once the Greyscale conversion is done change the image back to RGB (full color). It'll retain the greyscale look gut in fact will be a full color image. Word may be handling the Greyscale image differently than it would a RGB image. Hope these help. Jack ===8<==============Original message text=============== I am working on a cemetery survey project. I have photos of gravestones that I scan into my computer, tweak with Adobe Photoshop Elements. This I am happy with. I am scanning at 300 dpi, grayscale. Then, I import the picture into Mircosoft Word adding the inscription to the page. The quality of the photo in Word is poor compared to the quality of the image in Adobe. Is there some way to correct this difference? Thanks in advance, Deb ===8<===========End of original message text=========== ______________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". - Ben Franklin ______________________________________________ "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson ______________________________________________ "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." - Samuel Adams ______________________________________________

At 03:52 PM 1/26/03 -0800, you wrote: >I am working on a cemetery survey project. I have >photos of gravestones that I scan into my computer, >tweak with Adobe Photoshop Elements. This I am happy >with. I am scanning at 300 dpi, grayscale. Then, I >import the picture into Mircosoft Word adding the >inscription to the page. The quality of the photo in >Word is poor compared to the quality of the image in >Adobe. Is there some way to correct this difference? > >Thanks in advance, Deb The PAPER is a very large factor in how your images will look when printed. Use the more expensive "bright" paper, and see how much better they will look. The printer usually has a dpi setting also, and that needs to be increased....read your printer manual to see how to do that. rondie