Quote Originally Posted by Bogie View Post
The new Border is even better but I still see the same artifact, maybe a little less.
In this sample the bottom border is the original and has the cleanest edge on the top of the curve. The newest border is the one on the top and it has some dark fuzzy effect at the top of the curve. The middle Middle red border has the greatest amount of the effect. This is very minor, but it seems to grab my visual fixation.
And I like the forest as it is.
That seems to be an artifact of the compression. I cannot see it at all in the PS size I'm working. Here is a zoomed in piece at the high resolution and size as I see it:

Test 1.jpg

This is reduced to half size, and it begins to show:

Test 2.jpg

So I'm not sure I can do much about it for the size I need to use to post here.

Thank you for taking the trouble to show me what you meant!