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Color Grading in Lightroom (and Photoshop): How to Use Color Theory to Set the Mood of Any Photo
There is a version of photo editing where you nail the exposure, balance the whites, clean up the shadows, and call it done. Technically perfect. Emotionally inert. I spent an embarrassing amount of time in that version before I started paying attention to what color grading actually does to a viewer. It is not about making an image look “correct.” It is about making someone feel something before they even read your caption.