The beginning of this is pretty much back story,the real topic Later)
I'm the type of person,that almost never has a camera.So when I have a camera it's pretty important,or it's something I want to remember.I have a 128Mb SD memory card in my camera,that I never fill.I know a few people,that they take so many pics,That they have to buy bigger memory cards,and better cameras constantly.
I tend to take 5-20 pics at a time,then I download them to my computer,and Photoshop the ones that really need it.(Always keeping my original photos)
So on my endless attempt at finding Photoshop tutorials,I ran across a Video tutorial from some videos that they were trying to sell.Normally when I fins a phorshop tutorial,they are a few pics,and some text.They give you a general idea,but are sometimes really hard to follow. I've found a few video tutorials before,but they were single lessons,most with no sound,and went
really fast.You have to watch them over and over.Not to mention the few that have foriegn accents,and are hard to understand.
So The one video I liked,I went to EBay,to see if I could buy the dvds,
Total Training for adobe photoshop CS .(I have CS2,but they'd work fine) I found them for between $75 - $200,the low ends still had 3 days to go on the auctions.
I
aquired
a copy of one of the 9 Disk set from a peer to peer network.I really wanted see if they were like the little clip that I downloaded,or really,realy boring,and for beginners.
I loved it,downloaded the whole 9 disk set.
Except...Most of it deals with retouching photos...It does a great job to show you what most of the tools and filters do.Well, let me refine that...It does a great job explaining the tools the they feel are useful,some they claim to be worthless,and say a few words on them...
With all that being said....
The Real Topic....The reason for the thread!Alot of the photos that he retouched,in the video,Don't seem to be that bad to me.Some of them
I feel,they look goofy,fake,worse than before he tinkered with them,and just plain horrible. 90% of the pictures I take this guy would have hated and retouched.
I'll give a good example...(I'm going to steal one of Philly's great pics from Mexico...)
It's a nice Pic as is...It's not bad.
It could be tweaked,so you could see Philly's wife's face better,bring them (Philly,and wife) more to the focus of the picture...
I probably wouldn't photoshop that Picture....unless it was too dark,or maybe blurry,ETC,ETC.
I don't see spending 3 hours photshopping 10 pics,unless they are just not that good.Typically if they look that bad when they are on the camera,I take another one just in case....
So my question is
1.) Do you tweak,or fix your pics?
2.) Do you tweak most of your pics you take?
3.) How much do you tweak them?
P.S. I noticed that someone is selling a bunch of copies of the Video set Late last week.,I bought them for less than $20 on ebay,my Official copy is coming later this week...So now there is a cheap option versus the $75-$200 that I saw originally...
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