reShade / GShade allowed?

[Amnmaat]

Personally I find color saturation, brightness, and contrast to be better through Nvidia's control control panel than through Reshade. Reshade is a constant battle of overdoing it and tinkering to achieve the impossible. The only thing I'd use Reshade/Gshade for would be for SMAA, other than that you could play around with digital vibrance, contrast, and brightness in the Nvidia control panel.

[Packetdancer]

Personally I find color saturation, brightness, and contrast to be better through Nvidia's control control panel than through Reshade. Reshade is a constant battle of overdoing it and tinkering to achieve the impossible.

I mean, you can expose the same controls via ReShade/GShade shaders; the Nvidia control panel just constrains the values to a smaller—and perhaps somewhat more sensible—range than a lot of the Curves/Levels/etc. shaders for ReShade do. It would be trivial to make a shader that did the same constrained sliders as the Nvidia control panel does.

(There's a solid argument to be made that the Nvidia implementation for that one specific thing is more efficient, though; unlike ReShade, the control panel adjustments directly affect the rendered output from Nvidia's drivers rather than post-processing the frames.)

But most of my screenshot presets are either very small color adjustments to vibrance and contrast, or else things that are drastic visual changes like turning the game into an oil painting or pencil sketch for artistic screenshot work.

You're not wrong that a lot of people will really go overboard on tweaking colors in ReShade presets, though.

The only thing I'd use Reshade/Gshade for would be for SMAA, other than that you could play around with digital vibrance, contrast, and brightness in the Nvidia control panel.

FWIW, at least some of the SMAA shaders out there for ReShade will import into Freestyle. So if you still wanted SMAA functionality solely in Nvidia's stuff which you presumably already have, without having to throw a dedicated ReShade install into the mix, you likely have an option there.