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Originally Posted by aleatoric  I also like the photoshop analogy and have thought of this myself. If you have ever worked with photoshop simply to enhance a picture you will see the similarities. Manipulating contrast, adjusting color balance, shadowing, minor cropping, etc. The final outcome is still the original photo but the tastefully enhanced image is much more pleasing to the eye and often simply balances the imperfections of your camera equipment, lighting and image placement, very similar to what happens to audio in mastering. |
Helps to have a calibrated (screen & colour temp lighting) environment to make accurate judgement calls though. (plus working from a high res TIFF or RAW, not a low res jpg, which is how I often explain the need & benefits of submitting high res mixes).