"Martin Waddell" <lobster@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>I am trying to add( copy and paste) photographs of family members to a
>coloured photograph scanned from a newspaper. The people in the newspaer
>photograph are obviously composed of many dots whereas my copied and pasted
>family members are not ( at the degree of magnification I am using) . How
>can I make the family members have the same dot texture as those in the
>scanned photograph?

How about removing the dots from the newspaper images? If you don't mind a
bit of experimentation, you can do a good job of removing the dots, using a
free FFT plugin:
http://www.curvemeister.com/forum/index.php?topic=62.0
--
Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com