Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.
As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'
I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer... I'm not anti-digital; I just think, for me, film works better.
Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.
Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.