What are the dots/square that show up in my pictures?

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Pamela_Koch
Jan 10, 2004
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I take pictures with an Olympus C-3040Zoom 3.3 Megapixel camera. I transfer them to my PC via a Dazzle card reader. I then open them with Adobe Elements 2.0. Many of these pictures contain inperfections that show up as dots or squares. When enlarged they look a little like a military ribbon. What are these and how can I avoid or remove them?

Thank you for any help provided.
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Schraven_Robert
Jan 10, 2004
Pamela,

Could it be that you have zoomed up the image so much that you are looking at individual pixels?

Robert
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Lou_M
Jan 10, 2004
Pamela, in addition to what Robert said, have you set your camera’s resolution to the highest/finest setting? Some people set their resolution lower so that they can fit as many photos as possible on a memory card, but this makes the pictures look much worse. Make sure it’s set to the highest resolution and the finest quality.

Lou

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