[Cake4All]

I have a newspaper article crica 1950 that I would like to edit to put my friend's company website.
It was scanned in colour (reads about 900,000 colours) and was saved as a jpg.
The orginal is now 'gone' and can't be rescanned

The current size is 2058w x 2178h pixels, 1.6 mgs (winzip doesn't take it down much)

I want to make it 600 pixels wide, or less

I do not seem to be able to reduce the size so that the text is still readable.
I have tried touching up the text first in various manners, but as soon as I reduce, it is all a blur.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have the following apps to work with: Image Composer, Jacs PaintShopPro; AdobePhotoShop - although I am just learning the last two.

thank you

[DaveBurnett]

Try: Save it with a different name and in png format so you don't accidentally overwrite the original and so you don't degrade it with lossy compression.
Reduce it to grey scale if it doesn't have any colours. Increase the contrast and brightness. Then try it. Don't save it as jpg or you WILL lose detail.

[donhammond]

You can open the article in your Jasc Paint Shop Pro, and click on "image", choose "resize", and you can resize to "percentage of original". It looks like you could start about 50%, and see how it looks from there, and if it needs further adjusting, you can change the setting to a higher or lower percentage. It is best to make a duplicate first, and close the original,and make the changes to the duplicate instead of the original. Just remember to rename it to something other than the original name.

[etaf]

you may want to check out copyright just in case before posting on a website
assuming thats OK
reduce

The current size is 2058w x 2178h pixels

to the max size you need to display this
possibly 500pixels
that will reduce th esize considerable

[uly7]

Cake4all

I do not seem to be able to reduce the size so that the text is still readable.

When you scanned the paper and save it as jpeg, your text is nothing but part of a image.
Is just not going to work...however, you can make two.

Make 2 copies, --name one thumb_article.jpeg, and the other one original_article.jpeg, for example--

Reduce one --100x100 pixels-- put this one on the website, then click on it and the other one will appear in a different window.
Take a look a t my website and it will be clear, just click in any picture.
Good luck
Uly7