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molja |
 Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: Which photo editing software do you use? |
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| We had a poll on shotaddict.com that asked our members and guests which photo editing software they use. It is not surprising that according to the results Adobe Photoshop is well ahead of other editing programs. Among other popular applications Adobe Photo Deluxe and Ulead PhotoImpact were named. Several people also choose 'other' option, which means they use not-on-the-list programs. So what other photo editing software do you use apart from those mentioned? |
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| molja |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I would like to know our members' opinion on photoshopped images. Do you think that it is ok to add surreal effects to your photos, or just imrove them in an unnoticeable way. And if you say YES to photo munipulation, then my next question is when it is too much and when it is better to stop? |
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| chieflong |
| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:45 am Post subject: photoshoping |
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Here we go! Another debate on what's acceptable and what is not when editing photos. Firstly let me state that photo editing has been going on ever since the discovery of photography. Sure the tools back then were somewhat primitive but it did happen. Cardboard cutouts were used in the darkroom to cover areas of a photo so another image could be "cloned" in. When I think back to my days in the darkroom I would try anything and everything just to make my photos different from everyone else. I would play around with the temperature, chemicals, add dies to finishing bath.... dodge and burn, push or pull my film to extremes, etc... It was all some form of "photoshoping"!
Now days the tools are much easier to use and errors are easily erased without damaging the original shot. So now we are seeing many more photos being edited in some form or other.
So now the question - what is TOO MUCH?? Well since photography, like art, is in the eyes of the artist, it's up to the creator of the photo to determine that. What I mean is that what appears as too much manipulation to me may not be to another viewer. So you be the judge of your own work.
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| photolady |
| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't edit my images a lot, but i think that it is great that everybody has an opportunity to do slight editing today. I use Photoshop and i think it is an excellent program, i'm not an experienced photoshop user, but i don't have problems with it, i can do everything that i need. |
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| sugie |
| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| All depends on the type of a photograph. If it is a still life or a portrait, you can't go without editing. But there are photos with a strong subject and clear message, they don't need to be photoshopped, 'cause the idea is clearly expressed in such images without photoshop. I use ACSee for basic editing and sometimes practice in photoshop. I can do some simple things in photoshop only, but I heard people saying that one can do everything in in this application. |
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