Jim, perhaps you oversharpened them a bit too much. Try using the
'unsharpen' mask or an auto setting on the originals instead of the
'sharpen' setting if your program has one. Image Composer will sharpen them
painlessly if you have it. Each time you resave a .jpg it degrades so hope
you still have the originals to work with.
HTH
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