I started by trying to eliminate the halos. In your setting above, I can still see them. I could eliminate them by lowering the edge threshold to 6.3.
But a so lower threshold seems to reduce the effect of the other sliders.
I then tried to tweak the new # of scales, and all it seems to produce is a smoothing effect.
Without sharpening:
Before raising the # of scales:
After:
Anyway, at least for this particular image, I’m satisfied with the result.
EDIT: Scrolling thru the screenshots, I noticed that raising # of scales added some local contrast to the water, which is nice.
EDIT2: I haven’t noticed the show mask feature before. That is good! However, having it enabled, raising # of scales from 1 to something much higher (~6), gives this while processing (when it finishes, the mask gets back)
