Who likes to Photoshop?

PS can be quite intimidating and has way more options than most folks need. I would recommend that you try LR or Aperture. I have and find that I have no need for PS.
 
I use PS Elements 8, and like it. I haven't even used a third of it's features yet, but am always looking for something to try out on it. As far as 'if I didn't shoot it right the first time' goes, I have a digital camera that has very flat output, and all those images need some tweaking, and it is fine for that. But I do try on my film shots to come up with something that takes a minimum of adjustments later. Using filters really helps in that respect.

As for doing work for others, I've never given it a thought. One has to have a good intuition as to what the photographer was trying to get in the shot. I used to use a college student for all my wet darkroom work twenty years ago, and he could make the best prints. But alas, after he graduated, he got a job in IT, and that was the last I heard of him.

PF

ps: Great information, Chris.
 
I tried a demo version of Photoshop a couple years ago and found it to be waaaay to complicated for anything I need to do. I may have left film for digital but I still appreciate the purity and simplicity of a good "out of camera" image. I don't discard many of my pictures, normally PPing and displaying only those that require minimal work. I tend to be in the "get it right in the camera" crowd, I guess, and use "post-processing" (I've never "photoshopped" anything in my life) very sparingly. I think of PP work as limited "retouching" and never--or rarely--get into the manipulation phase that some people seem to embrace.

I used Photoshop Elements for a couple years but for the last year and a half my program of choice has been ACDSee. It does everything and more that I need...
 
NaChase said:
Am I weird for liking to delete dust spots off my negatives?
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Nope, you're just someone who cares about doing it right. No one screamed about us spotting off dust on our prints with a paintbrush and spotting dyes, so I don't get the complaints about doing THE SAME THING in Photoshop on scans.
 
LKeithR said:
I used Photoshop Elements for a couple years but for the last year and a half my program of choice has been ACDSee. It does everything and more that I need...
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I really like ACDSee Pro for post processing my film scans as it has the best healing and cloning tools I've seen ... way better than Lightroom IMO.

When it comes to processing raw files from my D700 though it struggles ... Lightroom is way quicker!
 
I am also happy with ACDSee Pro 3. They have recently announced version 4 and I'm curious to see the upgraded RAW features.
 
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Pfew, I was worried there for a second. I have CS3, but honestly I don't know a damn thing about it. I adjust levels, delete dust and that's about it. Sometimes I will add a warming filter effect, but frankly I couldn't do much more than that even if I wanted to. I feel that half the fun of using film is not having to dick around with it so much after shooting.
 
I use it extensively even on stuff that doesn't look like it was Photoshopped.

At least I hope it doesn't look like it was Photoshopped. But I distort, liquify, mask, etc. the nights away.

Sometimes I miss the nice darkroom I used to have but I sure don't miss the taste of Spotone. I still have my Photoshop v.1 floppy too.
 
All I do in photoshop is change levels, convert to B&W and crop. I don't really like using it. I feel it takes from the photo. As in I feel it doesn't belong to me anymore.
 
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