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How to Train Your Eye: Composition and Distraction Control Lessons from a Blind Photo Critique
Every retoucher I know has a moment where a client’s feedback stops them cold. Mine came early in my career, when someone told me my edits looked “plastic.” I’d spent hours on the skin, and I’d completely ignored the fact that the background was pulling the viewer’s eye away from the face. The retouching wasn’t the problem. The composition and the tonal balance were. I’d polished something that was structurally broken.