Ah. Personally I prefer the second image. Less flat IMO. But yes, also darker. Not what I would call "too dark" though.

I guess it also has a lot to do with monitors and such. My monitor is slowly losing brightness (as they do when they get older sigh  so I'm used to lightening things up in Photoshop. When they look a little too bright here, they're usually good on other computers :)

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