Comments on: Should You Digitally Manipulate Your Photographs?

By: Dallas Product Photographer

Dallas Product Photographer — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:49:17 +0000

Its the digital age. Photoshop is the digital darkroom. Sure people can go overboard but whether you are tweaking an image in the darkroom or in Photoshop, everything gets a little “retouching” Trick is to keep it so you can’t tell whether it has been reworked in Photoshop. Problem is if, you look at any movie cover/poster, magazine cover and most advertising the people on those covers have been Photoshopped extensively. So at some point it is what is expected when dealing with high end advertisement.

By: Debi

Debi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:38:49 +0000

Hey there, Awesome content! Stopped by to ‘see’ the creator of Color Tabs. I adore color need it in my life as it always cheers me up. What is your fav color? If I am buying someone a gift I always go with Turquoise. It is the only color that looks good on everyone. Doesn’t matter man or women, black white , redhead blond, brunette. Try it you’ll see. I’m not a photographer but admire the work. As far as touching up pictures, you can have it both ways,right? Print a photo UN-enhanced. Then get artistic with the software to perfect your creation. Print that one. If I where a photo bug I would probably try an absurd third way as well. Photo shop it into the most ridiculous. Sort of of ‘Lady Gaga’ it. Then print that and show the 3 to your customer. They might pay more for the 3, an opportunity to decide for themselves between them. Keep up the good work my friend, you will go far! PS I also like the effect called Sepia, didn’t see it here. Give it a try and make us a picture, OK?….EFT4MeDebi

By: Jennifer Pham

Jennifer Pham — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:23:02 +0000

thank you for great content , and picture
but i like photograph i dont retourch via photoshop :)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:00:08 +0000

Post manipulation of images. Sometimes it sounds like a dirty phrase.

I confess, YES I do it too.

However I do my best to get it right when taking the shot. Having a fairly recent move from 35m and 6×4.5 format I’m still in the habit of being ‘frugal’ with my shooting. While some may come back with 500+ images, I will only have 90-120.
I Work with these damn things called computers from Moday to Friday. I don’t want to be parked behind one sifting through piles of dross looking for some thing that can be salvaged and then trying to beat it into something I’m not ashamed to show others.
Not being that skilled with Photoshop I try to keep my changes to a minimum. Play with the levels a little, tickle up the brightness and contrast and a touch of sharpening. On rare ocasions a dash of graduated filtering to improve the mood of the image. Cropping too as one can’t always get the perfect composition at the time.

Any cabbage can blaze away and take a gazillion pics and get some of them right by accident. Trying to get it right when you shoot it is the best way, (in my opinion), to improve your skills as a photographer instead of a image emergency services..