Problems upscaling FF7 field Textures

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I have been sifting through the forums on here and trying to upscale and improve the FF7 field textures to suit my tastes. I have ran into two problems:

1. I open ancnt1.lgp in palmer editor, I extract the PNG files and get the 6 or so layers for that background, I open the files in Corel Paint shop Pro X and paste and align all the layers into one image (everything fine so far). Now here's where I hit my first problem After I edit/resize the texture when I try to save the PNG with all 6 or so layers Paint shop will not save the PNG as a layered image it forces the PNG to be saved as a merged image.

2. I assume that the merged image is ok to use. So I open ancnt1.lgp again in palmer editor and choose import PNG, my new merged PNG is imported and everything seems fine. Now I hit the second problem with i choose create modpath textures in palmer editor, even though my imported png is 2048x2048 palmer editor save the modpath texture as 256x256. Is this normal? and am I just supposed to resize the new modpath texture to 2048x2048 again??

Any help would be appreciated, been tearing what little hair I have left out over this lol
 
Okay so I made some progress. I now know what was wrong, every extracted layer has to be edited individually and placed together in a separate folder before palmer will import the PNG's. So now I can successfully import my upscaled/edited pngs with palmer and the modpath textures are exported in 1024x1024 as should be.

The problem I now have is that even choosing magnify only in Waifu2x to upscale the field textures makes a very slight green outline round the separate layers when you zoom in with palmer editor. Is this normal?? Or do I have to tweak some settings in waifu2x???? Anyone? Surely someone must know?
 
Use the full composite image(upscaled same as other layers) for the base layer which is where the green/red are usually.
 
For the ancnt1 field there is no full image only six "jigsaw pieces" that all fit together to make the "composite image". Should I paste all the pieces together to make a whole image to use?
 
Yes. Use that full image as the base layer, but don't include any of the lighting effect layers for the full composite image.
 
Got rid of the green outline using this method but it has now been replaced with an outline of little speckled pixels. Back to the drawing board I guess
 
Got it working now. The problem is with Waifu2x caffe. I just upscaled the same PNG in Corel Paint shop pro and now it has imported fine with no pixelated speckles
 
Scratch that the PNG looksfine with no displacement at all in Paint shop but as soon as I import it to Palmer Editor the lines between the layers are slightly misaligned and have speckled pixels around them. I give up man, I have modded many games successfully but I never had problems like this before. I guess I will just leave it to the pros lol
 
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