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Stop Fighting RGB: Why LAB Mode Will Change How You Color Edit in Photoshop
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Stop Fighting RGB: Why LAB Mode Will Change How You Color Edit in Photoshop

There’s a specific kind of frustration that hits when you’re trying to do a simple color grade and your image starts looking like a fever dream. You pull one curve, the colors shift, the luminosity goes sideways, and suddenly your subject looks like they’re standing under a blacklight at a 1990s roller rink. I spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking I was just bad at curves. Turns out I was working in the wrong color mode entirely.

How to Stop Dark Hair from Disappearing Into Dark Backgrounds (A Photoshop Hair Highlighting Trick)
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How to Stop Dark Hair from Disappearing Into Dark Backgrounds (A Photoshop Hair Highlighting Trick)

There’s a specific kind of frustration that hits when you’re retouching a portrait and the subject’s dark hair just… melts into a dark background. No separation, no dimension, no life. You’ve done everything right technically, and somehow the image still looks flat and muddy around the edges. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit, usually sitting in some coffee shop squinting at my laptop screen trying to figure out why a perfectly good photo looks like the subject is slowly being absorbed into a void.