That color grading LUT pack I hated for 2 months finally clicked
I kept fighting my portraits with manual curves until a friend in Portland made me watch a speed grade on his tablet, then it just hit. Anyone else have a preset that only made sense after seeing someone else use it live?
Watching someone actually push the sliders in real time changed everything for me too. The order they hit things matters way more than the numbers, so I started mimicking their workflow instead of just copying the look. Once I saw the before and after on actual skin tones, I finally understood why the pack was built that way.