you are using an incompetent lab. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:41 AM Subject: Real ugly artifacts on print enlargements
> I was of course prepared for the quality loss due to the scanning and > enlarging, but when I received the prints from the online service, they had > some strange "pink" artifacts random/all over the large grey areas or skin > parts and most of them are simply unusable and a lot over sharpened. I can > not see these artifacts, when I enlarge the sent in pictures on my monitor > to 100 or more percent and I did not use any compression for the final JPG > format. I wanted to leave the photos in Photoshop or TIFF format, but the > online service does only accept JPG nowadays. I left the second wave of > photos I sent them at 300dpi and also uncompressed JPG , but that did not > change a lot, still ugly artifacts and over sharpness. The artefacts look a > bit like maximum JPG compressed but with a violet tint on larger uniform > areas an the black and white photos?
