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Tried it with some typical event photos of people that contain out-of-focus regions.

Did a pretty terrible job.

I.e. at 10k, you should see some skin structure but instead it was just color banding, eyelids had non-existing wrinkles added though etc.

To the author: PM me and I send you some examples, if interested.

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Skin texture is very hard it seems. I’m often developing raw photos and the noise reduction often remove skin texture too much. Especially when I was editing photos of our newborn, there is just so much little details that easily gets lost in noise reduction (or compression) that are very clearly visible to the eye.

Most enhancements involve noise reduction, which can indeed lead to some texture loss.

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