Hi Tony,

I have never heard theat one before. I work on the master TIFF. From where I sit, the IQ of my master files is top notch. Another thing that I do differently is to run DeNoise on the whole image. Only very, very rarely — never at present, do I opt to erase the noise reduction on the subject.

with love, artie

So in PS “with the Delete Cropped Pixels box checked”, you must be working with a copy, not the original TIFF, correct? From what I understand checking that box is destructive and alters the image permanently.