Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you've had a suspicious view of Photoshop from afar all these years than good luck!! Anybody whose been doing digital photography with any seriousness at all over the past decades and has not had his head in the sand knows that the equation is not Photoshop = Airbrush But: Photoshop = Darkroom To "Shop" an image is to print or to develop it. Not twist it. You needed a darkroom in the previous age if you wanted to develop and print your pictures. Now you need Photoshop. Does darkroom work = lying? It sure could people have been dodging and burning their own view of things into their photo imagery from day one. The late 1800's. Plus pre or post fogging or you name it. Darkroom magic. Darkroom basic technique. In the name normally not of un truth but of an image with more impact and or clarity. Both usually. The idea is to be able to see the whole image clearly. All the detail in it. The way you did when you stood there looking at it with your camera in your hand at the scene. So it need to be carefully balanced. Proper sharpening is a timely topic now on the LUG and is a big issue now as we craft our images. In the now internet mentality there are those who want to buy and sell expensive gear and play with any results you get with them with a cheap "editing" program and expound BS like Photoshop is not for photographers or is for making un truths. Or is evil in any number of ways. Photoshop cost money and requires time. Photoshop is you darkroom; and the practice of using photoshop is the practice of photography. "Craft" Strand called it. You can lie with it or you can tell the truth. Just like before digital in the 90's. Only easier. But its still up to you. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner it's a world of laughter, a world or tears its a world of hopes, its a world of fear theres so much that we share that its time we're aware its a small world after all