SherriJ

Ok that worked and I checked the continue so now I need to hit continue - Is there a way to just have it pause for a specified amount of time?

My graphics rendering issue continues with the box unchecked and with all other strategies until I tried flattening the psd file before starting the action, When I do that it works perfectly. Is there a way to create a pause after the flattening instruction to allow it to complete before continuing the action? I can send a video of this happening.

The only thing that made a difference was hitting the tool reset button - having the box unchecked it was still happening before I hit tool reset - so weird.

Oh yes - with graphics card unchecked it was still happening so I reset the tool presets then so far it has not happened - so I am rebooting the computer I will now check the box and see if it happens again now that I have used the reset on the tool presets panel. I am trying to say that it kept happening until I reset the tools preset and now after that so far it has not happened

I upgraded and restarted my computer. The same graphics issue occurred.  I unchecked the box restarted my computer and tested and it is still happening.  Then I tried reset tool presets. So far I have not replicated the issue with the graphics card unchecked. I will keep testing.

driver version 419.35 is what is says - looks like there is a 419.67 I will download and update

This occurs randomly when I use Damien’s action for placing my watermark. It has also occurred on my laptop   It does not occur any other time. It begins with the cropping step and clears when I click the check mark to confirm. 

Do do I need to change settings in photoshop ?

Intel i7-9900k processer
Nvidia RTX 2070 video card

1126 by 1417

Major improvement with only your suggestion

Unfortunately I do not know the original state of the photo. I received a pdf file with this as one of the images. Perhaps scanned from an old photo album?

Is there a way to improve this old photo? If so where do I start. It was sent to me in pdf format and I have saved as jpeg to attach with no adjustments.