to Photoshop or not to photoshop, that is the question.

[Phil the Photographer]

To photoshop or not to photoshop, that is the question.


UPDATE: When I started this poll I was almost completly agaist PP, you've made me see reason, thanks!

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[Phil the Photographer]

Whoops! Aciddent!

[TATTRAT]

shoot, I wish I just knew how to use it.

[monkeykoder]

Ummm white balance? Color saturation?

[skieur]

It is not really a choice. Postprocessing with some program is a requirement for all professional work and all dedicated enthusiasts use it as well. Only beginners without a basic knowledge of digital photography would even consider not doing postprocessing.

skieur

[nicfargo]

Word Skieur, Word!

[monkeykoder]

I am a 100% newbie to photography and I still don't see where I would be with my D50 and no post processing. Color saturation is something that usually should be different for each image.

[Ls3D]

I respect the people who strive for AS SHOT, but since I've been fixing and modifying other peoples work for almost 20 years (parallax, CC and compositing), AND view 99% of what I shot in PS, well I have no problem with sweetening a shot with a little curve or levels adjustment, or perhaps a modest tweak in saturation or color balance, etc... the future is now.

-Shea

[monkeykoder]

DSLRs are basically designed for PP they take the image with all the data needed to make it great you just do those few tweaks it needs to really pop.

[Sideburns]

I agree with skieur. You can't not photoshop. Well...sometimes it's ok...but to be honest...it's not cheating...it's digital darkroom.

[Phil the Photographer]

Hm.. you guys are beginning to change my view!

[monkeykoder]

Adding stuff that wasn't there is probably not good but there are a lot of little things that are meant to be done to images some images need high saturation some need low saturation. Burning and dodging a few select areas adds emphasis. Adding a unicorn and fire probably too far...

[domromer]

A bunch of my teachers are very anti photoshop. I just think it comes from just getting out of the film dark age. Personally. I think there is nothing wrong at all with PS an image. And not just stuff that could be done in a traditional dark room. If something needs cloned out then be damned I'm going to clone it out.

[Sw1tchFX]

Post-production everytime.

[monkeykoder]

Post production at the very least to capture the scene that was there the camera doesn't always give you quite the saturation needed.