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 on Screen and Terrible Everywhere Else A few years into my agency career, I handed off a product shoot to a client, confident the colors were dead-on. The client called the next morning. The product was supposed to be a warm cream color. On their monitors, it looked green. On the printed proof, it looked yellow. On my screen, it looked perfect. That was my introduction to the real problem with color correction: it is not just about making the image look good.

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.