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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.