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Hi Ian.
The files are jpeg, I just did one to see what happens, this was a 393 kb attestation paper, for Harry Bibby, when I'd cleaned it up, resized, enhanced and saved it was 735 kb. The biggest one I did finished up at 912 kb.

This program I use is the best one I've ever found, it will do some things even better than one of the programs used by a local professional photographer.

Some of the old WWI group photographs I've revived, run to about 2.5 mb
I only work on flies in jpeg, I've tried other formats including raw, but don't like them and raw make even bigger file sizes.

Retlaw.

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Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 621893)

I'm betting they are bitmaps (.bmp) files. If they are convert to jpeg or if monochrome GIF. This will save you a load of memory both in stoarge and processing RAM.

try "the Gimp", its freeware and simply superb and open source(free!)

CPU is fast enough to not show a slow down unless you are doing something really silly in the sharpening department.(usually a 10Megapixel image off my DSLR atkes ~ 4-5 seconds to run through an unsharp mask at default settings, I once set them a bit silly just to see and it took it 5 minutes! this is on a 3 gig dual core machine with 2 gig RAM btw)

slow saving suggests a huge file.