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De-banding and fixing compression artifacts
Banding and compression artifacts are among the most common quality problems in digital photography: well understood, entirely preventable, and still routinely introduced by export workflows that haven't been thought through. This covers what causes them and the practical options for fixing them when they appear.
What is the Flambient technique?
Ever looked at your RE edit and felt it was off, but couldn't say why? Put it next to a pro shot and theirs just catches the eye, pops, looks like the room is lit from within but yours looks like a Tuesday. Nothing is technically wrong with it: the exposure and contrast is fine, but the whole thing reads kinda muddy and unbalanced, hard to name why.