>>3588776>Is there any right or wrong way to correct colors?Yes.
Edit from RAW.
Use clear references such as grey cards, or other references.
Make a maroon red a red, not a fucking neon pink because you're an instagram nigger trying to "boost" saturation and colors.
Color is mostly an objective thing and corrections are indeed based on science and there are proper methods.
>different people I watch end up making the pictures look like shit in my opinion.If you're not viewing images on a 99% to 100% sRGB calibrated IPS panel like a Dell UltraSharp (with a standard factory calibration, in "Standard" mode you cannot really judge anybody's edits. Wider gamut monitors essentially "reach" further into colors and what's a dark red can look neon red on a shitty wide gamut gaming monitor without color management so it's hard to say.
sRGB is the standard. Wider can look better, but requires an added layer of complexity in viewing images so the practical standard is sRGB for everything. If your image can't look decent when properly converted to sRGB your image is bad. 99% of instagram faggots don't even know what a color space is so you're probably right in thinking loads of people's edits are shit but there's definitely rules to follow and people turning sliders to 11 are cancer.
>I'm no professional but it seems like it's very popular to make the pictures like super duper contrasty and the colors look very unnatural. Is this really desirable or is it just their personal preference?Not desirable, and unprofessional.
>If they're full time professionals and I don't like it then am I in the wrong or is it totally fine to just have different tastes for this kind of thing?Just because someone's a professional doesn't make them right.
That image you uploaded looks like muddy shit and isn't even sharp, or even high contrast. It's just a garbage attempt at meme HDR.
