I was just wondering, what is your workflow in order to get uniform skin color across the image? 
I found a few issues:
OK, I've DnBed and healed and done composited where needed, etc, now I want to make the image "my own".
I have a couple of adjustment layers on top, but they're messing up the color. (Contrast curve is messing up the color, black and white at multiply is also doing it, so are the contrast, and many other adjustments that I apply to give punch where needed).
I can make a gradient map that fits things pretty well, and then fix it where it's off(basically colorize the image).
Or should I try to put color under control with a hue sat/curves adjustments for each and every one of those luminosity adjustments?
If I do it the first way, it tends to be overly uniform in most cases, but is much faster, and if I do it the second way, I have to fix the color mess adjustments made(and even if I do it as I make the adjustments, it still doesn't neutralize the saturation offset), and I have to fix what needed to be fixed from the start...
I am confused, how do you go about this?

I found a few issues:
OK, I've DnBed and healed and done composited where needed, etc, now I want to make the image "my own".
I have a couple of adjustment layers on top, but they're messing up the color. (Contrast curve is messing up the color, black and white at multiply is also doing it, so are the contrast, and many other adjustments that I apply to give punch where needed).
I can make a gradient map that fits things pretty well, and then fix it where it's off(basically colorize the image).
Or should I try to put color under control with a hue sat/curves adjustments for each and every one of those luminosity adjustments?
If I do it the first way, it tends to be overly uniform in most cases, but is much faster, and if I do it the second way, I have to fix the color mess adjustments made(and even if I do it as I make the adjustments, it still doesn't neutralize the saturation offset), and I have to fix what needed to be fixed from the start...
I am confused, how do you go about this?



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