CorgiFX VS qUINT

not entirely sure what you means there, but if you want to overlay an image onto a game then change it's blending mode, you can use CorgiFX's StageDepthPlus shader https://github.com/originalnicodr/CorgiFX

Yes, the background is a radial gradient I made using the CanvasMask shader. For the shopping cart I used AMM, you can spawn and position props with that. And of course Cyberlit for the light source itself.

The shader is called FreezeShot.fx which you can find here: https://github.com/originalnicodr/CorgiFX

Backgrounds and lighting are done in-game via ReShade. Most of the work is done with StageDepthPlus shader - https://github.com/originalnicodr/CorgiFX/blob/master/Shaders/StageDepthPlus.fx

Even on https://github.com/martymcmodding/qUINT , where most preset-creators link to, I can't find a download button for the life of me.

Having direct support in ENB for ReShade shader syntax would certainly be nice, as some of the stuff available for ReShade like Marty McFly's DELC Sharpen is much better looking than the commonly used ENB equivalents.

it has a cheesy outdated ReShade sharpening shader from the SweetFX era on by default, when it really should be using Marty McFly's DELC Sharpen which is so good that it literally makes all other ReShade sharpening solutions obsolete

After looking at your preset file, I'd consider maybe instead of doing "CAS -> Film Grain -> LumaSharpen", just use DELC Sharpen and simply go "DELC Sharpen -> Film Grain" instead.

If you’re using ReShade you can try the Qunit DeBand Shader out, it didn’t really do the trick for me in the past but it could help.

I've tested the sharpening filters quite a lot in the past few weeks, the Filmic Anamorphic Sharpen to my eyes is too sharp, it seems to add some kind of whiteness around objects, CAS is fine, but it doesn't sharpen much with default settings, DELC seems to be the best with its default settings.