Call to advice for fighting color noise

[Andrius]

RAW of that particular picture I sent you the cropped area of as well as its darktable XMP file are posted here:

Indoor pictures processing tips

I don’t think there is such a thing as “wrong” if you’re getting desirable results, but that is probably the artist in me talking. If you didn’t want to copy the whole history stack, you can make per module presets, or multi module presets, and apply them. I believe this is a bit more flexible than just cooyimf the whole history stack.

You can play with the denoise profiled instances and see how they work.