Understanding the color workflow
Though there are many ways to approach color correction, the goal is always the same: to make the image look better. At the very least, you'll want all your shots to match, to look like they belong together. Your subjects shouldn't bounce around between light and dark, or between yellow and orange; it's distracting and unappealing:
Getting the basics of exposure, saturation, and white balance sorted is usually called primary color correction. To make those first basic fixes, you might start out with an automatic adjustment like Balance Color or Match Color, before adding several manual adjustments such as the Color Board and/or Color Wheels.
To take it further, secondary color correction is all about being selective, making changes to just parts of the image. You might brighten up someone&apos...