Tried new wood and love it

[Dan Hintz]

That image was blurry from the get go, not a problem with Corel. You have three options: 1) Go with the macro setting mentioned by Frank and get up close, 2) Stand a few feet away and use the telephoto option to zoom in, or 3) Stand a few feet away, snap the pic at high resolution, and crop it after the fact.

Make sure your lens is clean from fingerprints (the most common cause of my SO's images coming out looking like they were taken through a jar of Vaseline... she just can't seem to keep her fingers off of the lens!).

[Frank Corker]

Dan is right Albert,the picture was blurred from the start. Jpg are fine, as for resizing, there is an excellent program which is not expensive either called Advanced jpeg compressor. Totally crunches jpg pictures from about 4 mb to about 1 with little loss of image too. Another good one is XnView and you can get that from XnView dot com free. A decent photo taken with you camera using the macro settings will still get a better result than you got from your original picture.

[Albert Nix]

Posting another picture, Maybe this one will be better. The neat thing about the way this wood rasters is that it has a cedar panel look to it. The softer grain goes away and the harder grain stays. If it will hold up out side this stuff will make a great looking sign with a blasted look to it.

[Albert Nix]

What would be a good clear to use on wood outdoors?