Transform Any Photo with Textures in Photoshop: A Practical Breakdown
There’s a specific kind of flatness that happens when a photo is technically correct but visually boring. Good exposure, decent composition, and somehow it still looks like a stock image nobody bought. I ran into this constantly early in my freelance work, spending way too long adding drama in the wrong places, like overcooked contrast or aggressive vignettes, when the real fix was sitting one layer above the photo the whole time.