November 07, 2004
Better living through highlight adjustments
I don't normally spend a lot of time playing with photoshop, but what the hell..
Posted November 07, 2004 01:41 PM in Photography
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On November 7, 2004 02:51 PM Olivier added:

I just started using Photoshop's Shadow/Highlight filter too. It's great for pictures that were taken facing the sun (by someone else of course).

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On November 7, 2004 02:54 PM Ben added:

As a Unix girl, shouldn't you do this in The GIMP?

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On November 7, 2004 03:06 PM kasia added:

I have a mac as my primary machine.. Gimp is great and I use it when I do this stuff on linux, but on a mac photoshop is just so much better.

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On November 7, 2004 04:50 PM Tom added:

This raises interesting philosophical questions like: How much editing can a photo take before it is no longer a reflection of reality? What if the filters are fleshing out parts of the picture that were never really there (do you know which leaves were really red and which were green?)?

And I use Gimp when I'm in Linux and Photoshop when I'm in Windows. It's a matter of convenience. :)

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On November 7, 2004 07:29 PM rob added:

define "reality" ;)

i'm a photographer too, and a part-time digital lab guy. as such i'm interested in one thing, and one thing only: that my images reflect my experience and my emotional state at the time the image was made. i'm not a documentarian, i'm an artist (or at least i play one on tv).

the human eye records a range of tone and colour that no machine can duplicate, so no original photograph is a depiction of "reality" to begin with. the whole debate is moot.

my substantially devalued two cents...

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On November 8, 2004 10:07 AM fluffy added:

Yeah, and doing midtone/shadow/etc. adjustments is just a form of dynamic range compression, which is merely a reflection of what the eye and brain already do in order to resolve details anyway.

Totally legit.

Now, photoshopping in trees/giraffes/goatse.cx/etc is another matter.

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On November 8, 2004 09:00 PM david added:

This snap looks good either way, but the "enhanced" one brings out the spectrum of colors which would otherwise be hidden to the eye in this photo.

It makes the river more signifiant (which is a good thing, since without- the river and the surrounding area had a sort of same tone) when the colors around it can be seen.

Great job. I like!

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On November 9, 2004 05:20 AM Dave added:

They have Photoshop for unix dumbasses.

The Gimp sucks.

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On November 9, 2004 05:44 PM Paul added:

From a certain point of view, it's impossible to take a photo without editing. Issues such as lens types, filters, exposure times, aperture values, and focal lengths all change the how the final image will look. Since they modify the "image" these constitute "editing" as well.

A picture is what it is -- but the picture is not the subject.

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On November 10, 2004 09:14 AM samh added:

I read "Photoshop for unix dumbasses"

t'was alright

plot was a little thin

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On November 14, 2004 05:38 AM steve added:

I have tried both GIMP and Photoshop. Personally I prefer Photoshop. But what do I know, I just run Linux and try never to boot to windows unless I have to. Some of the photoshop stuff I've done can be seen at www.steveneddy.com. The pics of family & friends were cropped, color corrected and sanitized in Photoshop. I just can't make myself learn GIMP yet. Yes I still use windose as a crutch, & I can't quite stop smoking either.

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