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I hate photoshop

Apple fanboy said:
What’s that Canon/Sony/Olympus/Panasonic/Minolta/Leica/Nikon boy? ;)
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Damn it was gonna say you messed up with panasonic on there…. But yeah I had an LX100 for a few days…. And you forgot Fuji….

Oh yeah…. Ya cheeky begger! 😂

Edit: and Rollei…. I’ll stop now…. I am just making myself look silly.
 
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kenoh said:
He had to be. Can you imagine how long he had to stand there while Mikey chipped away at that?


It is absolutely mind blowing how the masters did this by hand. How many ended up in the reject bin before he got one he didn’t muck up? Not like you can rub out a mistake and try again.
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Yeah, I also wonder if when they looked at the finished work, if they were happy with it, or hated every tiny flaw that no one but themselves knew was there.
 
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bsamcash said:
I have a suspicion that OP is possibly insecure about either his images or his equipment. Many of his threads are painting a picture of an individual who is less interested in photography as a hobby, and rather more interested finding ways to make his work seem superior by dragging others down. Sorry if this sounds like a harsh assessment, but I have to call it the way I see it.
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WRONG. I love my Canons and my images. It’s why I don’t share a ton of them on FB, Twitter, or here. I don’t want them stolen by another who will use photoshop and claim they were his.
 
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jwolf6589 said:
WRONG. I love my Canons and my images. It’s why I don’t share a ton of them on FB, Twitter, or here. I don’t want them stolen by another who will use photoshop and claim they were his.
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So what are you doing with the pictures you’re posting online?!
 
I actually love photoshop for this reason. A lot of my portrait shoots are Instagram influencers, and yes... a lot of them are fake. But I have fun and enjoy doing them, I try to manipulate photo's so viewers can't tell its been photoshop'd. I do think changing skies are lame.. and discourage those change requests. Influencers get paid collaborations by their appearance, so I do make them look better, and clean up the surroundings. If they keep getting more paid collabs, I still get paid every week. Anyway... when I show my manipulations to people... they are usually amazed and appreciate the work I do. Never got any hate for it... but I still haven't been called out for it... LOL.

There are some manipulations I was requested to do... or they don't get paid. I had a line of Wedding dresses I shot all over San Diego. The company basically rejected most of the pics because of her tattoos. I charged her $5/pic (20+ pics) to take out all her tattoos... I could have charged more... these weren't small tattoos... I felt bad for her and how much it cost, but the company accepted all the edited pics and she got paid. I love Photoshop for what it can do... I get satisfaction manipulating viewers... haha... jk... I just enjoy editing in Photoshop.. and learning something new every time I use it. :)
 
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erayser said:
I actually love photoshop for this reason. A lot of my portrait shoots are Instagram influencers, and yes... a lot of them are fake. But I have fun and enjoy doing them, I try to manipulate photo's so viewers can't tell its been photoshop'd. I do think changing skies are lame.. and discourage those change requests. Influencers get paid collaborations by their appearance, so I do make them look better, and clean up the surroundings. If they keep getting more paid collabs, I still get paid every week. Anyway... when I show my manipulations to people... they are usually amazed and appreciate the work I do. Never got any hate for it... but I still haven't been called out for it... LOL.

There are some manipulations I was requested to do... or they don't get paid. I had a line of Wedding dresses I shot all over San Diego. The company basically rejected most of the pics because of her tattoos. I charged her $5/pic (20+ pics) to take out all her tattoos... I could have charged more... these weren't small tattoos... I felt bad for her and how much it cost, but the company accepted all the edited pics and she got paid. I love Photoshop for what it can do... I get satisfaction manipulating viewers... haha... jk... I just enjoy editing in Photoshop.. and learning something new every time I use it. :)
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Thats an interesting topic.

We seem to have a trend at the moment where being inked is somewhat on trend. What happens when that trend fades and non-inked is en vogue again. All of these models who are inked will rely on PS for work will they? or will inked people become more and more mainstream ? interesting having a fashion phase that never fades - by inked I mean serious surface area of course.
 
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kenoh said:
Thats an interesting topic.

We seem to have a trend at the moment where being inked is somewhat on trend. What happens when that trend fades and non-inked is en vogue again. All of these models who are inked will rely on PS for work will they? or will inked people become more and more mainstream ? interesting having a fashion phase that never fades - by inked I mean serious surface area of course.
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i think tattoos are going to be en vogue for quite some time.
 
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jwolf6589 said:
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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Interesting. This comes right on the heels of someone on one of the Star Trek original series FB groups complaining about this very thing because I (among others) posted “what if?” pics for fun speculating about unseen events we never got to see in the original episodes.

There is no intent at deception, but a decent amount of work was put into it to make the images look like they could have been a screencap from a never before seen episode. But anyone closely scrutinizing the images can tell they’re photoshopped, and not just because no such footage actually exists. Generally the response has been positive with only one or two detractors, and one particularly vocal about it.

As has been mentioned already upthread people have been manipulating photographs since photography began. And not just doctoring existing photographs, but also fabricating photos or film from scratch. The oldest example I know of is film footage of the sinking of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in 1898. This footage was totally faked as no actual footage was ever taken during the sinking. I believe they filmed a model made to sink in a tank of water. And film making was in its infancy at the time.
 
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