FUBARgenre: The Genre of Fubar

What can you do to fix a poorly defined background in an otherwise great portrait? You have a wide variety of options, but the quickest (and easiest) way for me is to desaturate the background to make the foreground stand out more.

Changing skin tones and manipulating portrait colors in photoshop seem to be the craze these days. And I’ve been doing it for the longest time without really any conscious effort on my part. But I’ve been asked to write this basic photoshop tutorial, so I will attempt to retrace my steps.