[Cynthia Daniel]

Brian,

I looked at the portrait image under magnification in my graphics program and there's a lot of pixelation occurring. Could be the scan is not the best.

Also, perhaps there's some light reflections from the photographic process combined with a very painterly style. I've noticed sometimes that when artists that have a very painterly style photograph their work, that the "painterly" quality can sometimes go a bit rough looking between the photo developing and the scanning each increasing the contrast.

Just possibilities. I could be completely off base.

Dean, what DPI did you use to scan? I assume you saved it as a .jpg. Often people compress too much and this will cause pixelation. There's an option on saving a .jpg as to level of compression. You may already know.