The images on these pages were captured from video tape or Laser disc, using a terrific little device called a "Snappy 3". This is a unit that connects to the parallel port on your computer, and using the supplied software it captures still images of amazingly high quality. Much better than more expensive internal capture cards so I understand.

However, as good as the Snappy is, the images you will see on these pages still received a fair amount of enhancement using Photoshop and it's various "plug-in filters". I try to pay special attention to sharpening up eye detail, as I feel this brings the captures more "alive" . Also, even after using a quality capture unit like the "Snappy", I prefer to smooth over the faint horizontal lines present in all high resolution screen captures.

I tend to spend around 20 to 30 minutes cleaning up each captured picture, so you can see that this little lot took a fair amount of time to complete. Still, it was great fun, and I hope you'll agree they were worth the effort!?

If anyone would like to work on enhancing video captures this way, do drop me a line, I'll be happy to help. I may even add some tutorial pages to this site at some point, for those lucky enough to have access to Photoshop.