I have about a hundred pics that were scanned years ago and then "enhanced" with Xara and saved as .xar and .jpg. The .xar are far, far sharper than the .jpg's but when I enlarge them they get "fuzzy". Most of these were done about the same few days and I don't understand how some were saved so very small and come out pixelated and most do not - guess I screwed up somehow.

The scanner I used was the HP - G4050 which will scan print, pics, slides and negatives up to 4800dpi - if you want to go take a vacation while it scans at that high of dpi. I don't remember what I scanned most of these at.

I bought that scanner back years ago and don't even know if it will work with Win-10 now.


Do you think today's scanners would do a much better job? Any recommendations? - jb