Why Your Portrait Colors Look Wrong (And the Correction Order That Actually Fixes It)

Why Your Portrait Colors Look Wrong (And the Correction Order That Actually Fixes It)

The Edit That Made a Client Say “She Looks Sick” I sent off a gallery to a beauty client a few years back, feeling genuinely proud of the work. Clean skin, lifted shadows, the whole thing. Her response was three words: “She looks sick.” I zoomed in on the hero shot and finally saw what she meant. The model’s skin had this greenish, underwater cast that I had completely stopped seeing after two hours staring at the same image.