I used four different shaders from the Reshade toolkit:
- qUINT_sharp.fx (sharpening filter.)
- Deband.fx (reduces color banding.)
- Daltonize.fx, deuteranopia setting (designed for colorblindness. I find it smooths out some of the color grading quite nicely.) Or maybe I’m colorblind and don’t know it.
- qUINT_lightroom.fx (color grading tool.)
The pics are pairs of individual scenes (different perspectives and time of day in clear skies.) All the scenes are ‘Filters OFF, i.e. Asobo’ followed by ‘Filters ON, i.e w/Reshade.’
The scenes were captured in HDR using GeForce. I then use Vibstronium’s neat batch tool that I launch on Windows login using Task Scheduler. The tool watches for JXR files (HDR picture files) being dropped into the GeForce Gallery folder, then converts them to JPG (SDR picture files) and applies some tone mapping of its own.
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-many-of-you-actually-sim-in-hdr/483131/24?
And finally, just a pretty purple sky with the Reshade filters on. I think the color banding is an artifact of the conversion process - I don’t see it on my HDR monitor with Deband.fx turned on.
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Glad that’s working out for you! One of these days I’ll figure out how to put a GUI configuration window in front of it. 
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ETA: I turned another Reshade filter on (CobraFX colorsort.fx) and immediately got GPU crashes. I had to remove it from the Reshade folder because the sim wouldn’t launch with it active in the profile.
I originally loaded ALL the filters when I installed Reshade, and was playing around with them. I got CTD’s at some point, but I didn’t know which filter was causing them. Uninstalled, deleted all Reshade files, and only reinstalled a few. Now I know not to use colorsort.fx on my system.
I tried Reshade recently (ver 5.8.0) and thought it looked awesome. The new install process is really simple compared to what it was in the old days, but after installing I began to get CTDs as well. I ran the uninstall to get rid of Reshade, but the next time I started MSFS, I found that it was still tied to the EXE. I ended up reinstalling MSFS before I found a video that explained how to remove it.
Now that I know how to remove it if necessary, is there an INI file that I can use that will load only the specific filters that won’t cause CTDs (understanding that my rig may be different)? Or do I just go into whatever INI I end up using and make sure colorsort.fx isn’t selected? Thanks…
I first removed colorsort.fx from the reshade-shaders subfolder located in the folder where gamelaunchhelper.exe (the file I pointed to when installing Reshade) is located.
Then I edited ReShadePreset.ini located in the same folder. I removed all references to colorsort.fx and saved it. Colorsort.fx no longer appears in the list when I launch Reshade, and the sim is running fine. I plan to enable a few other filters one at a time so I can know which ones cause issues within the sim. I feel much better knowing how to install a few at a time, as well as how to remove any offending filter. 
I looked in the XboxGames folder and found that the shader had been removed and the .ini file had been updated. I don’t know much about how Microsoft does things, but I think the WindowsApps folder and XboxGames folder are linked. Updating one of them updated the other.
Thanks for the detailed info and help! I’ll give it another try here in a bit.
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Can you please share a link to the video that explained how to remove Reshade?
This is the one. How to Remove Uninstall Reshade From Your PC - YouTube
I believe I was using version 5.8.0 but the instructions were the same. Best of luck.
