How to Shift an Entire Photo's Tone in Photoshop Using Five Adjustment Layers

How to Shift an Entire Photo's Tone in Photoshop Using Five Adjustment Layers

There’s a specific frustration every portrait photographer knows: you nail the shot, the subject looks great, but the background is working against you. The sky is flat, the leaves are the wrong shade, and the overall color story feels like it belongs to a different image. You can push sliders in Lightroom all afternoon and still not get the nuanced control you actually want. That’s the gap this technique fills.