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White egrets can be difficult to get detail in with either harsh light, or backlight. Got this guy early in the morning with a backlit scene.

The dove and the mocking bird. OK, it looks like a mocking bird in B&W.

Well, I sent them a description of the issue, and the sample photo. I'll report back with what they say. I hope I can fix this. I really like Topaz, but find the artifacts rather annoying.

Thanks, Fred. I read the first article that popped up. It was from Apr of last year. The representative from Topaz said they were working on it and hoped to have a fix by the end of the quarter. :rolleyes: The work around they suggested did not work for me. This was to convert it to another...

It's an HP with an I7 processor and 16 gigs of RAM. I've been updating it regularly, so I'm sure it's the latest version. I was loading the latest update tonight, and had some issues, so I uninstalled it and am reloading it right now. What's the issue with the known problem. Is that a bug they...

Since I started using Topaz AI, as opposed to using the separate programs, I've occasionally noticed these weird artifacts in the backgrounds. They are most notable in dark backgrounds that are then lightened in LR. The artifacts are visible in the output file from Topaz. Here is a recent...

Well, I made a spur of the moment trip back over the Cypress today to see if the bugs were starting to get active. They weren't. I went ahead and switched to the long tele and walked the perimeter of the swamp. Some of the birds and a turtle were cooperative(ish). These guys weren't as...

Well, that was the pick of the litter from about 6 trips down to the beach, and that particular trip, the gnats were absolutely vicious. We only stayed about 45 minutes then turned tail and ran. That tree from that angle was the one that keep me going back again and again. Don't think it has...

No, I don't mind at all. One of the major draws to the forum is learning. We may have different visions of what the final product should be, but by looking at something from a different perspective, it often helps to clarify what we are after. Often it leads down a path one, or both of us hadn't...

Just for context, this is what we normally get at this location when we have access to getting onto the beach itself. Taken last year in close to the same spot, this is a different tree in the surf, although from close up, rather than several hundred yards away, across the marsh. The landscape...

I don't think I can remove both and still have either enough resolution left, or fit everything in while excluding both of those things. I already had to crop down the original image, somewhat, to level up the horizon. Here is a fairly radical crop, putting the horizon on the bottom third...

Well, aforementioned trip was a big disappointment. Extremely high tide kept us from the beach. I saw a break in the tree line that gave a look at the surf. Wind was whipping, and blowing the spray behind the waves. Looked really interesting. I set up the tripod and tried getting some images of...

I didn't set out to take this one to qualify for the challenge, but I thought I had my camera set to F8 this morning. Checked the EXIF data and it turns out I was correct. Not a very successful outing. Got up at 4:00 and drove an hour and a quarter, braved the cold and wind, only to have an...

The first thing that came to my mind is that you are using it to shoot pictures of a roller derby. How far are you from the subject? If the distance is too great, there may not be enough light bouncing back to the flash for it to recognize. Have you tried the same setup at a fairly close...

Since there were so few entries in the "Sidewalk" challenge, I decided to take a few pictures of some sidewalk art the next house over. The images weren't as interesting to me as I had envisioned (imagine that!), but I decided to post one anyway to help out the challenge. After posting it I got...

Yeah, I need to get a little more organized. I thought I had duplicated some of the pictures in the latest 4k I posted, and so I deleted it to rework it. I have since discovered I didn't duplicate anything, I just had a file naming issue. I'm sure that some of the other software is easier to use...

I have Gigapixel. I don't have an issue with needing to upscale my images. All of them are over 4K of 3840x2160. In fact, I have been having to downsize them to keep PS from running too slow. Batch mode sounds good, if nothing else I might try batching them, but keep the upscale at 1x with a JPG...

At first glance, I thought "How did he know I took this at Magnolia Plantation?". Then I realized you were asking if it was a magnolia tree seed pod. Yes, on both the tree and the park.

I reworked the second swamp wildlife video at 4K. Took quite a while to render, but uploaded faster than I thought. I was a little hesitant to label it as 4K before it went through the system, but it lists 4K as a quality option. You were on point, Fred. The 4K looks much better. I may replace...