After a total panic attack - and, a tom of questions and research, i found a PS plug-in that gets a big thumbs up from moi.... I cannot tell you how much relief this PS plug-in has brought to me...

for comparison:

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I used this totally crap example to see how far I could push the Plug-in...this one took 2 hits of nr:

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