A related advice to those who aren’t professional photoeditors: if you want to substantially reduce brightness, also reduce saturation. Sometimes even reducing

A related advice to those who aren’t professional photoeditors: if you want to substantially reduce brightness, also reduce saturation. Sometimes even reducing only saturation works as intended. This is because in low-light conditions we gradually lose the ability to perceive color. Dim but still colorful objects seem oversaturated. (I’m not a pro either, but worked at a real typography for a while with guys who knew a thing or two about it.)