3.0 How to get good results automatically?

[paperdigits (Mica)]

@maf

However I have 2 tricks that I need to rediscover now: channel mixer in soft light - I really like the effect it can produce on skin tones (starting with Kodak Tri-X 400, then blend with softlight and decrease opacity). Second is the tone curve with softlight for portrait. It produces nice warm effect (sometimes and with opacity rather low of course

I don’t think you need to abandon them, just make sire those modules come at the end of the pipeline, which by default they do.