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I have recently inherited a number of photos, ranging in age from
20 to 100 years old, of my family. Since these photos are priceless,
I am trying to digitize them so that I can have them on disk for
archival reasons.
 
I have experimented with using a VIDI-24 Framegrabber, however, the
quality of the scan is not as high as I want. I have also experimented
with a flatbed scanner at a local photocopy store, which gave me the
quality, but it is expensive. In either case, I find that due to
peculiarities in the photos, considerable touch-up is required.
 
I am looking for some sort of image processor software which will
allow me to touch up those photos, at a reasonable cost. It must be
friendly for a novice, reasonably powerful, and CyberGraphx compatible.
I have looked at Studio II, GFXLAB, and a couple of others, however,
none of them seem to fit my needs. I have PhotoGenics Lite, which was
included with my CV64, however, the Lite version seems to have some
substantial problems with it (does not release memory, does not
support virtual memory, is a memory-hog, and gurus).
 
I was looking over an issue of Amazing Amiga (1994) the other day,
and they had a review of ImageFX, ADPro, and ImageMaster in it. Of all
of them, Imagemaster seemed to be the most cost-effective. However,
I would like opinions on any/all Image processing/Paint programs before
I go much further.
 
So, what I want, is opinions of solutions to my problem, which are
cost-effective and powerful enough to get the job done.
 
Please respond here, or to BEGOODMAN@DELPHI.COM
 
Thanks
 
Bruce Goodman
BEGOODMAN@DELPHI.COM