It's breathtaking - Sphiratrioth's Photorealistic Reshade - v.2.02

DEPRECATED: Use this updated Reshade preset instead:

Sphiratrioth's - It's Breathtaking 2025 - Nova-Edge-GITS at Cyberpunk 2077 Nexus - Mods and community

I'm living the mod page and archive files for those who may still want them for some reason or who will not find the other one without coming here.

INTRODUCTION

Since many "photorealistic" Reshade presets here tend to overdo it with a fake HDR/LEVELS etc. to deepen the shadows/scene exposition, in result - everything becomes too dark. It makes details of all the surfaces, clothes and such fade into darkness. Black point goes up to the ridiculous levels so the whole picture gets darker like hell. No one wants that. A dark-hole style black does not exist in real life outside of the actual dark holes nor in drawing/painting/rendering. Natural darkness is more like a dark graphite so a fake HDR has a tendency of darkening everything too much. This preset was made to not cross the line with darkening but still make shadows and colors much deeper with a better temperature & saturation.

CHANGE-LOG

--> CURRENT VERSION (1. 63): v. 2. 0/v2. 5: RT Overdrive & Classical RT Adjusted, different FPS cost versions: a) It's breathtaking 2. 0 (heavy-switchable bloom, breaks the game menus if turned on but looks great on screens), b) FPS Friendly (balanced), c) Sharpen (low), d) It's breathtaking 2. 5 (heavy - bloom & menus adjusted for playing with a bloom ON)

--> PREVIOUS VERSIONS: OBSOLETE

RESHADE 5. 0+ ISSUES - MUST READ!

Use Reshade 4. 9. 1. It's best. The preset is gonna work with all the versions available but anything above 4. 9. 1 eats up FPS just by enabling an EMPTY PRESET! You read it right - no effects applied - just preset/Reshade running. Sometimes it may be up to 10 FPS alone - depending on game! Because of this issue, even though the new, flashy Reshade feels great, UI and all looks neat - I highly suggest using 4. 9. 1.

WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES IN DETAILS

- sharpen everything (heavy sharpening) [YOU MUST TURN THE FILM GRAIN OFF - OTHERWISE IT'S GONNA LOOK BAD, TRUST ME]

- green filter reduction (many people do not like it, it's not realistic either)

- color saturation and temperature boost (most people enjoy full, colorful images but without green/blue/red noise filter like a green one that vanilla game has)

- shadows deepening (without darkening everything, which 1000 presets using a fake HDR/LEVELS etc. do here and I hate it - natural darkness is more like a dark graphite color, which I have already mentioned)

- "HDR" feeling without making everything too dark

- additional SSAO

- glooming HDR FOR SCREENSHOTS (toggleable with END) - good just for screenshots