Just browse FB. So many fake photos. These days you never know what is real and what is fake. I hate photoshop and all the liars out there that manipulate and deceive people with photoshop.
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I hate photoshop
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People have been manipulating photos long before Photoshop.
People use other editing software, too, for this purpose: just recently on here in another thread someone posted an image in which he'd swapped out skies using Luminar AI to create an entirely different image than what he had originally shot, so this is indeed nothing new.....
The critical consideration in this sort of situation is the person's intent in the first place: was he or she simply having fun experimenting to see what happens if he or she does x, y or z in an editing program, swaps out elements of an image, adds or deletes elements of an image, changes colors of an image, etc., etc......or was it something done with the specific intention of deceiving viewers? Only the photographer knows what was intended: deliberate deception or harmless burst of creativity?
There is a difference between forensic, documentary and photojournalistic photography, where everything needs to be just as photographed, and simply making a few basic adjustments in an editing program to perhaps increase contrast, remove an offending stray bit that doesn't really belong in the image, etc., and going all-out with creative adjustments and sometimes extreme alterations to an image. Sometimes an image no longer is really considered a photograph at all but a work of digital art.
The critical consideration in this sort of situation is the person's intent in the first place: was he or she simply having fun experimenting to see what happens if he or she does x, y or z in an editing program, swaps out elements of an image, adds or deletes elements of an image, changes colors of an image, etc., etc......or was it something done with the specific intention of deceiving viewers? Only the photographer knows what was intended: deliberate deception or harmless burst of creativity?
There is a difference between forensic, documentary and photojournalistic photography, where everything needs to be just as photographed, and simply making a few basic adjustments in an editing program to perhaps increase contrast, remove an offending stray bit that doesn't really belong in the image, etc., and going all-out with creative adjustments and sometimes extreme alterations to an image. Sometimes an image no longer is really considered a photograph at all but a work of digital art.
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Too bad. Live with it, as this is not going away.......
Why don't you try to focus on things which you really like, appreciate and enjoy? You'll get much more satisfaction out of life that way!
Why don't you try to focus on things which you really like, appreciate and enjoy? You'll get much more satisfaction out of life that way!
So I'm guessing you're not a fan of Sci-Fi either?
Shaka, when the walls fell.
People were photoshopping a century before PhotoShop was invented.
BTW, the potted kitty (<-- see left) is real.
BTW, the potted kitty (<-- see left) is real.
And water is wet..another thread where a user wants attention and posts
Whats next , you hate bubbles because it makes you gasy?!
Whats next , you hate bubbles because it makes you gasy?!
It completely blew me away to learn that Dorothea Lange's iconic Migrant Mother photo depicting the struggles of poor families in the Great Depression was retouched to remove a stray thumb from the lower right corner of the photo!
Please change the title of this thread to, “you know what really grinds my gears…”
I feel like there is a lot more going on here than just Photoshop.
I was getting ready to recommend Affinity Photo, but this thread took an entirely different direction ...
Something I used to help my uncle with when he was developing his own film.
I say help, probably a hinderance but remember some trick with a lollipop stick and a bit of card stuck to it and would wave it over a particular area for an effect.
Another Chaos Monkey thread from OP. Fantastic!
why worry about what others are doing. just take care of yourself. candidly you seem to have some anger issues unrelated to photography.
Where I come from, we fed the okra to the piggies, then when the time came, ate piggy...
The same with chokos, but this time we ate piggy accompanied with choko leaves. They are truly delightful when boiled with coconut milk.
I remember all of the uproar when it was revealed that the photo of OJ Simpson's mug shot had been manipulated by the editorial staff of one of the major US news magazines... the image was enhanced to dramatically increase contrast to the photo, and darken his skin to make him appear more sinister, and, most likely, more "guilty"... some argued that the intent was an effort to add to the already racially charged event ... the uproar was not just the edit of the image, but that the manipulated image appeared on the cover of a major journalistic tome.
TIME Magazine - OJ Simpson — ALTERED IMAGES
www.alteredimagesbdc.org
Sadly, it's hard to tell today what is real and what is not... but one cannot blame Photoshop (or other editing software) for this any more than one could blame spoons for obesity or pencils for the state of grammar and spelling in today's society.