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[Hannie]

Hi Mary,

Good question, I often wondered about that myself!
In practice I found that color correction works works surprisingly well, even with a fair amount of damage present.  In some cases it may be necessary to do another small adjustment at the end of all the damage repairs but usually it is fine.

In the example in this topic a color correction as first step in workflow is definitely not a problem.

There are exceptions of course, some photos are so badly damaged that color correction is really hard if not impossible and we need to go black and white.

The big problem with doing all the color correction at the end is that often a lot of unnoticed damage starts to appear and we need to start repairing all over again.  Worse is that cloning marks may become visible if color correction was not done at the start.

:)

Hannie

[Marydh]

Thanks for clearing things up for me.
😍
Mary

[Mhayes]

Hi Mary, couldn't say it better than Hannie, especially about the exceptions to the rule.  ;)

Margie