@mwsilvers What I refer to as the “Sky” Preset as distinct from a/the Sky selection, effectively a normal object selection, except the object happens to be the sky.
@TorsteinH I have seen this stated by others but I that is not borne out by my tests, far from it.
Using the images I tested and posted above, that was a test using the “Sky” preset we have what I reported before
I repeated that test with another set of test images where I used Sky selection and got
i.e.
Please note that these are X-Trans images and the Noise Reduction is XD3. The machine is my 5900X with 5060Ti(16GB) and the Nvidia drivers are 581.94.
The tests were executed in the reverse order to the way I have now organised them in my directories, i.e. “Sky” preset first and Sky selection second.
