Curves

Why Your Colors Look Wrong After Editing (And How to Fix Them with Curves)
Color Correction

Why Your Colors Look Wrong After Editing (And How to Fix Them with Curves)

The Photo That Looked Perfect Until It Didn’t A few years ago I was finishing up a product shoot retouch for a skincare client. The image looked great on my center monitor, the one I use for active editing. I hit export, sent it over, and got a reply within ten minutes: “The skin looks green.” I looked at the file again. Sure enough, when I pulled it up on my right monitor, the model’s skin had a subtle but obvious green-green cast.

Why Your Colors Look Wrong After Export (And How to Fix It in Photoshop)
Color Correction

Why Your Colors Look Wrong After Export (And How to Fix It in Photoshop)

I had a client call me out on a Friday afternoon once. She’d received the final retouched portrait, opened it on her laptop, and the skin tones looked greenish and flat. I opened the same file on my main monitor and it looked perfect. Same file. Two completely different images. That’s the moment I stopped treating color management as optional and started treating it as the first thing I set up on any project.