DigitalEditor
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2014
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- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos NOT OK to edit
Well I appreciate this response for you as it is more constructive rather than bashing or trolling. I posted my website here as it is a forum to promote websites. A lot of the photographers who promoted their websites here do in fact offer services, so you can call it advertising anyway, not "spamming". Spamming would be promoting your websites on forums that are not related to your topic, etc. Anyway, you must understand that what you find appealing is not what someone else will find appealing and vice versa. You may not be a fan of soft focus looks but plenty of people do like that effect. I may not be the best editor but I have edited for a large amount of people in the past who liked the effects used as they are ones who choose which effects they want the overall look to be. And believe me, some of the edits I posted were not "basic" editing at all. Basic editing is something anyone can do without any knowledge of editing.Your first post on the site is a post of self promotion, so yeah, that's a wee bit spammy. As far as what constitutes a basic vs advanced edit, I'd say your ideas of basic and mine are a bit different. Changing colors is easy. Cloning is pretty straight forward as well. Yes I'll grant that reconstructing areas can require finesse and an eye for detail, but at such a small resolution it'd be hard to tell if you had that eye. Adding a Gaussian blur is both very easy and usually in poor taste. High quality retouching is more about attention to detail than it is about wizz bang effects. You don't want your processing to stand out.In addition to what Snerd said, I'm afraid I don't find your work very appealing. Much of the processing seems very crude and heavy handed, and images where you've used layer masks show a distinct lack of finesse in the masking process. There is a large market for professional digital retouchers, but I think your client base is going to be very limited unless you can show a higher caliber of work.
What do you mean by crude and heavy handed ? The work posted has also been resized so it loses its quality, as stated on the website. What exactly do you find lacking in the work itself ?
Most of the edits look like really basic stuff, certainly without the finesse and smoothness that I would expect back if I sent any work out.
Any of the 'after' photos posted here would get panned immediately based on the edit work alone.
Lastly, you are spamming a community.
If you want to advertise, advertise.
Basic stuff would mostly be retouching colours or contrasts, I showed a different variety of edits, not just basic. Second, "spamming a community" ? This website allows up to to promote our websites, which is what I did. If you don't have anything constructive to say, I suggest you don't say anything at all.