I’m a photoshop guru, i am.
Or how to ruin a perfectly good image, just because you can.
Whilst i would never purport to be the Photoshop’per of the century, and would go as far to say i probably use about 4% of the program features (it is widely reported that even the Adobe staff who build it have limited knowledge of the whole program) i do know my field.
Photographers use Photoshop in a number of ways, in my opinion it should be used to process an image, much like traditional film, and in some situations make small alterations to any imperfections (after all we are none of us perfect), there are of course situations where a larger amount of adjustments may be required, but just how far do you go?
A photographer will get an image right; or as right as possible; ‘in camera’ with lighting, angles and positioning; dull but true; this in turn makes the post processing a much simpler task, after all you can work on an image for hours, but if you put junk in you WILL get junk out.
You’re probably expecting me to show how wonderful / god awful i am with a ‘before and after’ type photo, but no, absolutely, never, I just won’t. Why? Because my clients come to me for beautiful images of themselves, they don’t want me to make them look hideous just to prove a point that i can operate a graphics tablet for my personal gratification, or for that matter a camera.
So next time you see a ‘i am a Photoshop guru’ – ‘look at what i did to xyz person’, just think to yourself, do i really need to know, or do i just want the best image of me?
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