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Photoshop Question Anonymous
Question I've wanted to ask:
When is it okay to use Photoshop with pictures you've tooken, and when you are using PS what should you be using and what shouldn't you be using?

I always thought it sad to use Photoshop to correct things you couldn't when you took the picture.
>> 88CheroJeep
I usually only use it for adjusting levels/curves/etc.

The reason I use it for that is because I have a Canon PnS and I need to accentuate the lighting and colors as best I can to get good PnS shots.

In digital photo in high school I learned usage of filters and adjustments moreso than I knew before (I took it in the second semester of this past year, my last one). I have some interesting shots I think, made from shots used for silhouettes.

tl;dr - use it for level and curve and sometimes hue adjustments, but little else. If you have to do major touch-ups, then you need to take the picture again if possible, and if it's not possible then that sucks.
>> 88CheroJeep
>>219568
oh, for clarification, the interesting pictures I'm talking about have filters and stuff on them, as I was going for abstract concepts.
>> Anonymous
well, I am probably one of the more liberal ones when it comes to photoshop work. I think that photoshop is a wonderfull tool, and I am open to changing image content in post processing. If there are some powerlines fucking up your landscape shot, why not remove them if the result looks good? I cant see any reason why not. If you know how to use photoshop properly, there are a lot of things you can do to an image, and get away with. Using masks and adjustement layers you can increase the contrast/light/color in certain areas of the image, wich can be very powerfull.

In my opinion there is no image is out of your camera as a raw-file. digital raw fils have very little contrast, and that ofc is a good thing becouse of dynamic range, and you have more to work with in pp.

/p/ will laugh their asses of off your bad photoshop work, but dont care about it. The only thing you can do to become good in photoshop is practice! If you dont try out stuff you will never get better, and you will never be able to take full use of the extemely powerfull tool that photoshop is. Others sit and complain about your PS work, but often it is just a bad excuse for beeing a total noob in the application.
>> Anonymous
>>220004
>/p/ will laugh their asses of off your bad photoshop work, but dont care about it.

hi beethy
>> Anonymous
I thought as long as we're on the subject of photo software, i'd throw in a question.

What do you use for EXIF extraction? I've been using exifread, but i'm wondering if i'm missing extra info because it's a pretty barebones program.