Artifacts removal

I can't seem to remove these artifacts (if that's indeed what they are) in the sky and mountain without distroying details in the water. This is crop from a RAW shot using a 20D processed in C1 saved as a TIF with on sharpening, cropped using CS2 and saved again in TIF. They aren't boxey like compression artifacts so what are those little squiggle lines and how do I get rid of them? If anyone wants to try their hand at getting ride the artifacts while saving the details in the water and leaves please give it a try.

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The lines on the land are noise mixed with oof detail,

two very quick versions, one is just the clone tool, other is magic wand + gaussian blur.

sharpening a bit less would help.


<edit> 2nd one is the blur one, just noticed how terrible it looks, so ignore that

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Ok I will take a shot at it
Before

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Many thanks to all of you..they are all improvements over my original.

If I had to pick just one I would go with bckane's after version. Would explain the steps you used to get your results?

Thanks again.

Sam442 wrote in post #4075987
The lines on the land are noise mixed with oof detail,

two very quick versions, one is just the clone tool, other is magic wand + gaussian blur.

sharpening a bit less would help.


<edit> 2nd one is the blur one, just noticed how terrible it looks, so ignore that

What is off detail? And how is it created?

sagebrush wrote in post #4076821
Many thanks to all of you..they are all improvements over my original.

If I had to pick just one I would go with bckane's after version. Would explain the steps you used to get your results?

Thanks again.

Glad you liked the after version, steps I took were
1....Selected the sky and mountions with the Quick Selection tool in CS3.
2....Then used reduce noise (strength 10%) Remove JPEG Artifact
3.....About 75% USM
I think thats about it....pretty easy touchup to remove noise
Brian....

I don't use CS2 very often... I can select the sky+ground then copy it into a new layer then reduce noise but what is the Quick Select tool..than sound faster and simpler.

sagebrush wrote in post #4077440
I don't use CS2 very often... I can select the sky+ground then copy it into a new layer then reduce noise but what is the Quick Select tool..than sound faster and simpler.

Its like the magic wand....

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Too cool!...thanks

sagebrush wrote in post #4077657
Too cool!...thanks

Here ya go this might help
http://livedocs.adobe.​com …ec-81F3-CF04EE5295FC.html