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)

I had a client once send back a portrait I’d spent two hours retouching. The skin looked perfect on my screen. Warm, balanced, natural. She came back saying the subject looked “kind of green.” I pulled the file up on my laptop and she was right. The image had a green cast that my calibrated monitor had been hiding from me. That was the moment I stopped trusting my eyes alone and started building a correction workflow I could verify with numbers.

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.