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<blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston_RIP" data-source="post: 792332" data-attributes="member: 10742">[USER=47518]@blackstar[/USER]&nbsp; I few things I'd suggest...&nbsp; First is your crop... &lt;--this makes things easier in other areas... your crop is 600X239 pixels... Always, especially for social media posts, try to maintain one of the standardized aspect ratios... The original jpg and 600X239 doesn't leave much room for fixing stuff... So I upscaled the image using a New program I've been testing for Topaz... Photo AI. It's in an early beta at this point, and they are selling it...but I would probably NOT rush out to buy it just yet... If you own their other 3 programs, you get an early access to the new one... It attempts to do what the other 3 programs do in a single program, rather than using 3 different programs... I turned off the sharpening and denoise functions and only Upscaled your image 6X... There was no sharpening or noise reduction... what you see is just simple upscaling from a heavy crop... There was no other editing...You can try this yourself with Lightroom's&nbsp; &quot;Enhance&quot; feature after you've cropped an image...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fred Kingston_RIP, post: 792332, member: 10742"] [USER=47518]@blackstar[/USER] I few things I'd suggest... First is your crop... <--this makes things easier in other areas... your crop is 600X239 pixels... Always, especially for social media posts, try to maintain one of the standardized aspect ratios... The original jpg and 600X239 doesn't leave much room for fixing stuff... So I upscaled the image using a New program I've been testing for Topaz... Photo AI. It's in an early beta at this point, and they are selling it...but I would probably NOT rush out to buy it just yet... If you own their other 3 programs, you get an early access to the new one... It attempts to do what the other 3 programs do in a single program, rather than using 3 different programs... I turned off the sharpening and denoise functions and only Upscaled your image 6X... There was no sharpening or noise reduction... what you see is just simple upscaling from a heavy crop... There was no other editing... You can try this yourself with Lightroom's "Enhance" feature after you've cropped an image... [/QUOTE]

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