Education | How To Avoid Distorted Faces

When processing DNG files, I am unable to achieve good sharpness, and artifacts appear in the photos—especially on people's faces—rendering the images unusable. What am I doing wrong?

I’ve tried the standard editing tools and also Wonder. The resxult with Wonder was much better.

I have marked the artifacts in PXL_20260503_121426410.RAW-02.ORIGINAL-rawdenoise-face-sharpen.

PXL_20260503_121426410.RAW-02.ORIGINAL.dng (13.4 MB)

Recover Faces is not meant to be used for small faces like the ones shown. The images does not have enough details to recover these. Make sure to unselect them from the Recover Faces to avoid any distortion. Wonder can be a good option as well as its a heavily generative model that will recontruct the faces. That is different then recover faces.

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