I did small change in my current workflow - I removed 'sharpen' node from substance graph - used to tweak albedo - and I replaced that part of process with Photoshop and it's SHARPEN MASK filter - as it works much better.
I also noticed that I pay really a lot of attention to HISTOGRAM while tweaking values in Designer. It is very important to understand how it works and use it all the time as it is really powerful source of information. I adding page from tutorial I am working on as I covered that part already there and someone might find it useful.
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