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Hi Steve, Lightroom is intended as the first stop in image processing, PS is a great tool which I resort to occasionally for heavy lifting or something out of the ordinary.
I take it you have an up to date version of Lightroom Classic CC, I regularly hit the 'auto' button after I have roughly cropped and checked white balance.
I find auto adjustments give me a good starting point. I adjust the clarity and de-haze controls, rarely more than 26 on clarity and maybe 3? on de-haze.
Thanks Robert.
Yes, I use the latest Lr Classic C. Interesting your usual max on Clarity and Dehaze; I tend to venture up to the mid-teens on one or other, or both depending on the image.
Noise and sharpening are the last operations. For a special image or one with particular noise issues, I take the image into NIK filters, the Dfine2 filter is very good both for regular noise and banding.
I had a try with the NIK filters a little while back but they proved unstable. Think it was around the time when Google bought or sold them and development was lagging behind current operating systems. Thus I had what was perhaps an unfortunately bad experience. The improvement in your sample images is impressive so maybe time for me to take another look.
Cheers...
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Steve Neal