photoshop
Dick,
I am a sporting kind of guy. Would you buy a cue from me as represented in a picture I unabashedly admit to having used PhotoShop CS to manipulate? I won't tell you a thing about the cue, just present you with the image that I have taken of a cue and used PhotoShop CS to enhance the image. I want a fair appraisal of the stick and an offer. I'll post both here on this board.
You may be a fair cue dealer, you may not be, that I don't know. I do know that you are trying to totally misrepresent what can be done with PhotoShop after you have admitted using it which leaves me feeling skeptical.
There is no reason to not use PhotoShop properly to better represent the true condition of a pool cue. However as fellow photographers and PhotoShop users we both know that there is tremendous potential for abuse if the PhotoShop user chooses to do so.
(Dick)
"For sake of argument, what could I do with Photoshop to unfaithfully represent a cue?"
Just for starters, remove any scratches, cracks, warpage, or finish blemishes that show in the image. If you really want to be imaginative you can add or remove inlays, change buttcaps, wraps, colors, anything that you choose. There are very few limits to what can be done with PhotoShop. Almost impossible to tell these changes have been made after the image is reduced to 72 PPI to display in an ad. When a photographer with your training and experience takes the pictures to begin with the original shots can be set up to make deceptive photoshopping even easier and more difficult to detect. With your training and experience and the obvious effort put into your photographs I am left to wonder why do you even need to change backgrounds?
I am not saying that you have engaged in any deceptive practices other than the rhetorical question you asked here. That did seem intended to mislead or deceive however and I won't be buying anything from you.
Hu
Dick,
I am a sporting kind of guy. Would you buy a cue from me as represented in a picture I unabashedly admit to having used PhotoShop CS to manipulate? I won't tell you a thing about the cue, just present you with the image that I have taken of a cue and used PhotoShop CS to enhance the image. I want a fair appraisal of the stick and an offer. I'll post both here on this board.
You may be a fair cue dealer, you may not be, that I don't know. I do know that you are trying to totally misrepresent what can be done with PhotoShop after you have admitted using it which leaves me feeling skeptical.
There is no reason to not use PhotoShop properly to better represent the true condition of a pool cue. However as fellow photographers and PhotoShop users we both know that there is tremendous potential for abuse if the PhotoShop user chooses to do so.
(Dick)
"For sake of argument, what could I do with Photoshop to unfaithfully represent a cue?"
Just for starters, remove any scratches, cracks, warpage, or finish blemishes that show in the image. If you really want to be imaginative you can add or remove inlays, change buttcaps, wraps, colors, anything that you choose. There are very few limits to what can be done with PhotoShop. Almost impossible to tell these changes have been made after the image is reduced to 72 PPI to display in an ad. When a photographer with your training and experience takes the pictures to begin with the original shots can be set up to make deceptive photoshopping even easier and more difficult to detect. With your training and experience and the obvious effort put into your photographs I am left to wonder why do you even need to change backgrounds?
I am not saying that you have engaged in any deceptive practices other than the rhetorical question you asked here. That did seem intended to mislead or deceive however and I won't be buying anything from you.
Hu
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