I took the photo at Choke Canyon State Park. That trip was my first foray in birding. I‘ve downloaded the Topaz AI trial version to try.Nice shot! Do you have any of the Topaz tools? I find that Gigapixel AI does a very good job of retaining quality when cropping, although more so when working with a raw image, but it's pretty good with jpegs as well. Very pretty bird. Haven't seen them here in N Texas.
They are good tools, but the trial version leaves an ugly watermark right smack in the middle of the photo. I use DeNoise, Sharpen, and Gigapixel. You need a beefy CPU and beefy discrete GPU, otherwise the process is as slow as molasses in Winter up North.I took the photo at Choke Canyon State Park. That trip was my first foray in birding. I‘ve downloaded the Topaz AI trial version to try.