HI David, Thanks for the PS tip... To go back to the image, I went through it again, and this time I cropped it a little bit (got rid of the white-shirt altogether), and masked the teeth and lips a little... (over)sharpened a little bit, so it is just a little grainy and... I *LOVE* this photo now... Thanks for pointing me toward thinking of PS as more than just a levels/cloning tool... Deen At 2003-01-01, 10:48:00 you wrote: >Deen, > >Here's how I do it in Photoshop. > >I rescale the image "by hand". From a scan of 1350 dpi, 2200x(whatever) I >sharpen, then downscale it. Once I get to a decent websize, I then do a >Save For Web. Fewer artifacts this way. > >Dave >(Old time Photoshop user.. from version 3!)