Hi--

>> I posted this to r.v.:

>> > How do I get the best quality still shots for grabbing with my Snappy
>> > using the photo mode?

>> There is no need to use the photo mode, since you can "pause" the
>> motion video (even selecting the particular frame you want to capture...),
>> and use one of the higher-quality capture settings in the Snappy software
>> to capture the still single frame. (I have samples on my web page, under
>> "Changing Showz", baseball game - and the home-page photo, of Snappy
>> captures of individual motion video frames. It works quite well...)
>> BTW, it may help to
>> Hope This Helps

>What do you mean by:
>"capture images at twice the intended size, reducing using pixel
>interpolation, then sharpening the result - "stairstepping" can often be
>minimized this way."
>I cannot seem to get good sharp pictures. See my home
>page:geodav-lou@worldnet.att.net.

The address appears to be incorrect...
I meant that scanned/grabbed images often show jaggies when sharpened
in photo-manipulation programs, but if captured at twice intended size and reduced, using a pixel interpolation tool, like in Micrographyx or Photoshop, the (soft) result can be sharpened successfully with minimal
stair-stepping effects...

>The first picture "yours truly" was scanned and the rest on that page
>are grabbed. On the second page they were all scanned.
>Your grabbed pictures of baseball game are better than my scanned
>pictures.
>Any ideas appreciated.
>george
GDavidson

I generally go through several stages of sharpening - first an
"unsharp mask", then an overall simple sharpening, then I mask particular
areas to sharpen (or sometimes smooth) - it is an interpretive process, to
get back to a good screen interpretation of the original (straight scans
doen't look very sharp, and often need tonal and color balance adjustments to "read" well on the computer monitor).
Have fun with it (and try saving a scan untouched as a backup, then
make several copies and try different things on them, see if you can
improve on the original with one or more of them...).