Trudging through mud

[Solofade]

Dude... you nailed this. You can see I kind of took down the vibrancy on the edges to focus it a little bit, but what you did is drastic, and needed lol. Thank you so much. The highlights do so much to bring him out of the background too.

I can't say that I have EVER used color variants in brush controls. Is this something I should just screw with until I get good results or do you have any recommendations?

Invaluable. Thank you.