Alot of PS

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they camped overnights in my development last winter. Off island near the health park.

they camped overnights in my development last winter. Off island near the health park.

I literally just purchased the 3 pak bundle for 84.99,
with discount code.
so.. I dunno yet this is the first photo I tried denoise on.

40 shot stack
Sony A7 II Sigma 70 mm Macro f 11 1/3 sec.
first try with Topaz denoise...really have to dial down the settings in there or you get all kinds of weird artifacts
at least I did on this one...
thoughts comments appreciated

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thank you. it is intended to be a product shot and including the entire reflection would detract from the subject

Redo

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Been working on this for a couple of weeks and thinking I can't really see it anymore.
I am finding gold objects to be particularly difficult but came up with something in PS (under neural filters) that seems to help.
Any thoughts or comments will be graciously accepted

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bout time someone caught that

We had a long stare down..... he won

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I just ordered the below yesterday because I had the same problem. My graphics card would not support the new Lr & Ps updates and it was not upgradeable. $1,200.00 direct from HP.
HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-2176z
Windows 10 Home 64 – free upgrade to Windows 11 when available
Processor
AMD Ryzen™ 7 5700G (3.8 GHz base clock, up to 4.6 GHz max boost clock, 16 MB L3 cache, 8 cores)[6,7]
Graphics
Integrated: AMD Radeon™ Graphics
Discrete: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 (12 GB GDDR6 dedicated)
Memory
16 GB DDR4-3200 MHz RAM (2 x 8 GB)
Memory slots
2 DIMM
Storage
512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
Secondary storage
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA HDD
Memory card device
HP 3-in-1 memory card reader

I finally purchased and received my x rite color checker display pro and calibrated my monitor.
Its a Benq pd2700 q.
Set the profile to D65 and 120 luminance with 2.2 gamma and the largest tablet sample which has the most color samples. Yea I know for print 120 is high but I figure most of what I will be doing will be for web so hence 120.
So.... I'm having an issue with photoshop.
A test I found to see if things are set correctly is to make a new white layer and make a black to white gradient across it. It should look smooth black to white.
Mine does not. It is banded and also shows green and red bands.
I have reset color settings, see attached. These seem to be the favored settings by all the photoshop geeks I have found.
However,,,if I go to " assign profile" and change that to the monitor profile I created with the x rite the gradient looks perfect.
This operation is not recommended by everything that I have read so I am assuming I have something else set wrong somewhere.
The profile is correct in windows.
Photos come into photoshop as prophoto RGB 16 bit.
The banding does not appear in lightroom.
Any ideas or somewhere or someone anyone can point me to?
I have spent the last day and a half looking online for an answer to no avail.
Guess I can call Adobe tomorrow....oh boy...
I have attached 4 screen shots including the two gradients and the color settings. the banding shows in the screen shot on my monitor it may not on here.
Any help by anyone here on UHH will be most greatly appreciated.

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Just heard from B&H. They are reshipping. due here wednesday 10/27...we'll see

Placed an order at B&H last Saturday 10 / 16. 2 day expedited.
It got to Memphis last Tuesday and has been there ever since.
Finally got a human being on the phone at Fedex today and he said " that it is not unusual"???? really???
So.. just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this kind of shipping delay

may I ask how long it took fed ex to get them to you??
I have an order placed last saturday that has been sitting in memphis ever since then