Processing 'jpeg' files with Photoshop, or any other program, is inadvisable. Each time you save a file in this compressed format it changes for the worse. After initial scanning the file should be saved in Photoshop's own '.psd' format. You can save it as many times as you like and it won't degrade. But jpeg files, even those that are of high quality, still have some compression and each time this is applied (at every save) it degrades the image. Another thing that I've recently discovered is that before Genuine Fractals is used to change the size of an image file all the sharpening and filtering and fiddling needed should be done - on the .psd file. If you work on an image after GFing it, the image gets messed up.
Don Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002
