CHG_CANON wrote:
Just 'up size' back to 2048-pixels on the long side. That should minimize the painterly effect of the details and minimize the artifacts, while creating a digital image to 'fill' most every target display monitor. The halo around the bird is one distracting artifact, particularly around the tips of the wings and the entire underside of the bird.
The wing position and focus on the bird are superb! The comments here and by others seek to best harvest the results in the processing, that compliment the camera work rather than distract.
For the colorspace, the 2nd image reports being created by Lightroom. To manage the colorspace and possibly the pixel resolution, re-import the output from Gigapixel back into LR and export the result to the sRBG colorspace and see what 2048-pixels looks like after up-sizing to 24MP. Compare that flow with simply upsizing the crop within LR to 2048px. You probably want something that is sharpened and noise free (blue sky) like the Topaz result, maybe a different Topaz module is the solution with LR managing the slightly increased pixel resolution and output colorspace.
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