New to Photoshop and need some advice!

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14 Jul 2003 - 10:14 PM

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Ian G W

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15 Jul 2003 - 2:10 AM

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Tina,

I had a look at your portfolio, but could not see the photos you mention. Mind you, it is 3am. I'll try again tomorrow!

Ian

jaymeekae

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22 Jul 2003 - 1:28 PM

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I've not actually looked at the photos you've mentioned yet, the page is just loading. The thing with editing photos in photoshop for your portfolio is that you have to decide how much editing you consider to be fair. That is, how much you can change and still say it's a photo.

The standard I work by is that any sort of colour corrections, when applied to the *whole photo* (i.e. no selections) are perfectly allowed. This includes brightness changes, contrast, levels etc.

If you start selecting certain areas, or using a pen tool of any kind, then I think you're in dodgier ground but you can always put in your portfolio something like "Edited in Adobe Photoshop"

Anyway, i'm gonna go look at your photo now and I'll have a go at it in photoshop for you

durlstonp

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22 Jul 2003 - 4:22 PM

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I think the distinction is even fuzzier than you put it Amy. After all, surely using an ND Grad at the time of taking the picture is applying a change to a selected area. Selective dodging and burning has been, and continues to be, a mainstay of darkroom technique in order to maximise the success of a photo. Tilting the baseboard when making the print allows you to correct converging verticals. Yet, never once has anyone suggested that these cease to be photos. The line is definitley fuzzy and each person draws their own line in the sand. Personally, if it can be done in the darkroom or through glass filters at the taking stage, it's fair game in photoshop without it becoming an image as opposed to a photo.

DP