[Paley]

MGI Photo Suite SE was included with my computer (Windows 98). While attempting to download photos from a floppy disk for the first time, one of the photos became distorted. It almost looks like a mosaic but I did not try to alter the photo while downloading. Can you help?

[photolady]

Does it look like little square blocks? If so, and it's a jpg, that is why it's distorted. Some times when saving a photo, if you use jpg mode, it will distort the photo as you've described.

[hewee]

Plus when saving make sure your not compress it even more.

[Paley]

How can I correct this problem? The disk was borrowed but the photo is downloaded on my c drive

[photolady]

Not much you can do to fix a very pixelated photo. There are some programs that will, but I've never seen one that actually made a pixelated photo look that much better.

Here's an article about what you are seeing. Actually pixelation is a common term that actually is called "artifacts" in jpg. I forgot that terminology when replying. Here's the article, it's for Paint Shop Pro. but has some useful information in it:

http://www.jasc.com/support/learn/tu...moval.asp?pg=1

[hewee]

Free DCE (Digital Camera Enhancer)
HotPixels Eliminator
and others tools here are free.

DCE (Digital Camera Enhancer) works great.

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/index.html