Verdant Valley

This is a repost of an earlier image that was seriously flawed. Thanks to Larry for pointing out the deficiencies.

Much better, but I can still see them. That's because I'm currently preparing a bunch of old scans for printing that I go over inch by inch at 200%, and found the same "gridding" on one of them. Now I'm paranoid and look for gridding every where! :-)

Thanks again Larry. Yes, they are faintly visible but I doubt that one would see them if one's not looking. I can't figure out where they're coming from. I took this image on my cellphone which is very unusual. It is in the original .jpg (still don't shoot raw on the phone). I haven't seen it in other phone images. It reminds me of scans of printed pages sometimes show bleed through from the reverse side.

I think it's blocking artifacts from JPEG compression. Must be an occasional software fart.

I was adding noise with P.S. Elements (to cover up bad editing) and discovered Elements has a filter for fixing blocking. Filter>Noise>Reduce Noise>check the remove Jpeg Artifacts. Don't know if it works.

One last note. Topaz Labs has noise reducing software, DeNoise AI, that can make a lot of the older images and scans printable. Helps on the new stuff too, I'm told.