What if Photoshop doesn't exist?

[cgipson1]

So you can do selective color without photoshop... with a careful choice of subjects, and a little glitter. So?

 

[unpopular]

You could do selective color in the darkroom, too. I'm guessing it involved a sponge?

 

[Aloicious]

there's no need to wonder if photoshop exists, there's plenty of evidence to support that it has existed since 1988...

 

[shortpballer]

Good photographers haven't lost sight of what makes a good photograph. Society has learned to accept mediocre as being good.

Yep... too many 6 day wonder MWACs! They have seriously lowered the scale of what is acceptable. And most of them use prints SOOC, because they can't afford photoshop, or it is "too complicated" for them to bother learning...

I can afford photoshop, and I know how to use it VERY well. Its not the problem. The problem is that many photographers have today don't know the basics of photography - Light. Again, I have no problem with photoshop, and in fact use it often. Nice list of equipment in your signature Charlie... very classy...

 

[gsgary]

Facebook pros would be in a right pickle if there was not PS to save their crap images

 

[Tee]

Facebook pros would be in a right pickle if there was not PS to save their crap images

But Gary- you're giving them too much credit. FB togs use Picassa or the now defunct Picnik.

 

[gsgary]

But Gary- you're giving them too much credit. FB togs use Picassa or the now defunct Picnik.

I used to use picasa when shooting events and printing on site

 

[Kolander]

30, 40, 50, 60 years ago, photographers used masks, brushes, filters and another "new Photoshop tricks" on film as well, everybody should know it.

 

[unpopular]

^^ and what a pain in the ass masks were back then.

 

[Derrel]

This question reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live sketch entitled, "What if Sparticus had a Piper Cub?" Too funny! (and also grammatically incorrect, but whateva', right?)

 

[rexbobcat]

I used to use picasa when shooting events and printing on site

The key word being "used to"? Lol

 

[TheoGraphics]

Idk why so many people think they're cooler or better than anyone because they don't use PS. That's so dumb.

It's makes about as much sense to advocate for riding a horse while your car sits in the garage.

Photoshop and other image editors are nothing more than a tool in a skilled photographer's toolbox. Anyone evangelizing "no post processing" or bragging about it is either ignorant or lazy.

THIS.

I'm pretty tired of people discounting other's work saying that "it would be nothing without Photoshop" or "I can tell that it's Photoshopped." I don't feel that using Photoshop to enhance or even "make" your images is "blasphemy" from a photographic standpoint. Sure, I can take nice photos SOOC, but I can make them look even better by tweaking them in Photoshop - so why wouldn't I? This isn't directed at the OP in any way, as I actually think this is a pretty cool project, and a cool challenge to create something awesome SOOC. I just get tired of people acting like Photoshop is the easy way out. People worked with their film negatives, altering reality and changing what it looked like SOOC decades before digital cameras even existed. I don't see how using Photoshop to do the same is any different.

Sorry for the rant!

 

[spacefuzz]

*cough* *cough* Fatali gallery where he posts "No photoshop" signs next to his images. Because any darkroom post processing or shooting on Velvia is of course not counted as manipulation.

 

[unpopular]

I don't miss the darkroom at all. Do you people even know what was involved with making a contrast mask??

 

[Vtec44]

Before Photoshop (tm)

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