Garry's Mod Awesome Graphics file

INSTALLATION:
Step 1: Install Reshade into Garry's Mod, choose gmod.exe,
the one that is in steamapps/common/GarrysMod/bin/win64, click D3D9 and install every shader except Legacy Standard effects.
Note: It's better to check reshade.me to see if there's a newer version of Reshade, if there is, use that one instead.

Step 2: Copy the "bin" folder, go to your root folder Garry's Mod folder (steamapps/common/GarrysMod) and
paste the bin folder in, if it asks you to replace something, press Yes

Step 3: Go in game, press whatever key it tells you to open the menu. Skip the tutorial,
go to D3D9 and activate "Copy depth buffer before clear operations"

Step 4: Go back to "Home", click the drop down menu that's at the top of the Reshade menu and click "Graphics Preset.ini",
then click "Select"

Step 5: Go to your Garry's Mod options, Video, click Advanced and
click the drop down menu under "Antialiasing mode", then set to none.

You're done! Feel free to mess with your settings, as SSR makes things look like it just rained,
so maybe you can do something about that if you don't like it.

EXTRA:

For added realism and cool mods, check out this collection: Steamcommunity.com
scroll down and click "Subscribe to all"

I'd recommend going to your menu (Hold Q or press F1), go to the right side of the menu and
mess around with your Life Mod settings located in the "Life Mod" tab, also click the "Options" tab
to mess with your addon settings, I personally changed some stuff in the HUD, which is called "H0L_D4" in the menu.