Anyone else not so crazy about photoshop?

[e.rose]

Gosh these people really hate threads like this lol

You speak the truth. I took a visit to your other thread btw.

 

[Trever1t]

I hate threads like these because they're without context or merit and generally the OP's intent is to simply stir the pot.

I love Photoshop for photo editing. I know about 2% of it's potential and that 2% impresses the crap out of me. I strive to learn more with every use. The objective is to use PS but not make it's use obvious, but contrary to make one question whether the photo was edited at all

 

[malkav41]

Only reason I'm not so crazy about Photoshop is the $$$. Photography is not a poorman's hobby.

 

[Village Idiot]

Sorry for offending you by my refusal to use photoshop lol. I'm so foolish

I totally agree dog!

 

[shortpants]

I smacked her hand until it started glowing and told her if she moved, I'd be makin' her face glow next!

This is a beautiful quote to start my day off with :lmao:

 

[Geaux]

Sounds like someone doesn't know how to use photoshop...

 

[subscuck]

OP, if you want flat, soft, lifeless pics with a narrow tonal range between shadows and high lights, by all means, print those bad boys sooc, frame 'em and hang 'em. If, however, you want to replace the sharpness anti-aliasing robbed your pics of, increase the dynamic range between shadows and high lights and add some contrast to make them look the same way your naked eye saw the scene, learn to use PS correctly. And always remember there's a huuuuuge difference between editing and manipulating. We edit to make a photo look natural and real. We manipulate to do silly s h i t. Like adding Osama Bin Laden holding a bic lighter to the classic pic of the Hindenburg going up in flames. See the difference?

 

[ghache]

I think your not to crazy about it because you dont understand nothing about it. You probably just came out of the weekend course you did and you re like "God i hate photoshop, i give up"

 

[clemaire]

I think your not to crazy about it because you dont understand nothing about it. You probably just came out of the weekend course you did and you re like "God i hate photoshop, i give up"

You couldn't be more wrong. I took a semester course and I know a lot about it. It's the fact that all I learned was photoshop and not about actually taking the pictures

 

[gsgary]

Photoshop is a tool to be used however the photographer (read: Artist) wishes to use it. If you choose not to use it, because it's "cheating" that's your choice. But that would be like trying to build a house without a hammer. It's certainly possible, but it's going to be much harder to accomplish, and the result will be terrible.

Hahahaha so any photos that don't go into photoshop are terrible? Wow so all photos before photoshop came out must be tormenting to look at. (and there is definitely things photoshop can do that they couldn't do in the darkroom)

Can you name one ? most of what is done in photoshop was done with film

 

[usayit]

None of you remember darkroom techniques? How about contrast filters in B&W darkroom? Cross processing?

I personally like my RAW images to be very flat and very very neutral... allows for maximum control in post AND allow the chosen lens do its magic. Its one of the first things I do when I evaluate a camera for purchase. The difference between many photographers and I is that the process from the click to final print is what I enjoy. This includes the lightroom or darkroom part. I guess many focus on just the final image obsessed over its so called authenticity among other obsessions such as sharpness, grain, noise, etc..


This discussion kinda reminds me of the ones that take place when you get slide photographers in the same room with photographers who prefer negative w/ print.

 

[usayit]

PS> Behind each and every well known Brilliant photographer is a brilliant master in the darkroom..... One of the most interesting parts the documentary, "War Photographer", was the interaction between James Natcheway and his darkroom specialist (I am embarrassed as I cannot remember his name) as they examine wall sized proofs... You can tell they had a close working relationship.

 

[imagemaker46]

Photoshop is a great tool in the right hands, it has been abused by photographers, in the newspaper, wire service world very little is allowed to be changed, basically what you do in a darkroom with a negative is all you are allowed to do, photographers have been fired from jobs for making changes. I spent a lot of years working in the darkroom, and got to be pretty good at it, I miss that side of photography.

Every image I shoot goes though photoshop, I don't make big changes, just a crop, re-size, minor contrast corrections if needed, pretty much same as working in a darkroom. What it has allowed me to do.........I've scanned 5000 negatives and slides since last year, preserving old sports images I've shot since the 70's, they were scratched, water damaged and now the digital files I have are perfect. I could not have done that without photoshop.

I don't know any professional photographers that don't use it.

 

[Tomasko]

Oh come on people! There exists a pure, RAW digital photo!
101011101101010110001001010101000011000101010100101010101010101111001111

Any C&C?

 

[adversus]

People who use cameras are cheating. If you want to capture a moment in time, the pure method is to draw it out on a cave wall with plant-based pigments. Otherwise you are just a cheater.