@R Lede and AnotherDavid
I want to thank you both for having no reluctance to state your age. If this were a perfect world, you would be due some extra respect (until proving you don't deserve it—which, for elders is a high bar) for having stuck around getting smarter for 83 and 80 years, respectively. In return for such basic respect, you can share what you've learned with people behind you on the curve, like myself, trucking along in my 78th year on the third planet from the sun. I, too, am looking for a solution to the moire pattern problem, using an older version of Photoshop Elements. I'll check out as soon as I'm done commenting and give these a try.
I, too, did not know what an FFT filter is, despite having taught myself Photoshop, how to write and sell novels, and most of the rest of what I've learned since Day 1, when I first breathed the sweet air of this Earth. I've used computers since the early eighties when I paid through the nose for an Apple II plus, 48K of extra ram, two 5.25 floppy drives, a C Itoh printer and Wordstar. All of this setup rests in its honored place under my basement steps. Despite the multitude of evils the internet has handed to lazy psychopaths, for those who always want to know more, it offers several quantum jumps in the ease of learning just about anything. This forum is an exemplary. . .erm. . .example. You young-uns' (if you're still reading) have been spared jumping in your '69 Nova, driving to the library, then hours spent poring through card catalogs only to find the single copy of the book on ancient Egypt you want has been checked out. I offer this as a way to feel lucky when your day has gone to hell.
I'm sure you two older guys both know the following, so I'll speak only for myself. One thing I've learned is that, however much I have learned, the universe of things I _don't_ know dwarfs by multiple magnitudes what I've been able to find out in the time given me to this point. That will be true if I make it to 100 like my father, or 101 like my mother in her determined effort to beat Dad's mark. Dad went first, parting from their marriage in its 78th year.
Finally, those who bailed early will miss my explanation for what, in this era of Twitter, must seem a long comment. First, I regard Twitter as the poison that has made brevity the _sl f ntwts_ . Second, I will come only this close to an apology for the length of this comment: Forty-plus years of writing novels would distort anyone's perspective on what constitutes a long comment or email.
Auf Wiedersehen from Spruill's basement.
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