Photoshop or Not Photoshop

This edition of post will explain to you, through crab eyes that is, whether to photoshop/edit a picture or not to do so. In many cases, I do came across people who think we should NOT edit any picture and instead, try to take a picture as sharp and as vibrance as possible to even be classified as good. So, now, how do we take those kind of picture then?

Firstly, you would need to know who is the target audience for your pictures. Remember, camera is just a tool for you to use to take what you are seeing and for us to make it yummy, we might sometime need to tweek a little to make it 'edible'. Personally i think that changing a picture color or even perhaps removing something which does not suite into the picture is totally ok so as long as not to jeopardize the main subject in the picture.

To tell you the truth, 99.99% of pictures in the magazines or even in posters has been changed a little either in Adobe Photoshop or any other software that allow us to do so. This is because, professional people understand that by changing that, they would be able to entice more readers or on lookers to stop and say 'Wow!!!'.


That is what picture are for right? I mean for those who want to look nice at least as you would not need to change anything on a family photo as you might want it the way it is.

So, ask yourself again, what do you want people to see in the picture? How to make it a creative art that people might want to have a look twice? How to have a boring picture turn into 'gold'? For me, there is no end to arts. You have simply browse through the internet and find many pictures which sometime you think are impossible to shoot but then, they manage to do so. When i say we might need to edit the picture, i did not mean  that we should have a picture of an elephant riding a pony but instead, we should have a picture of a Great Wall of China to be vibrance in color and yet subtle in scene. That is what makes a picture stands out.


BUT if you manage to a picture which can make people say 'Wow!!!' without modification then its nice but perhaps we can look in another sense, why not edit or tweek it a little to make people say 'Wow!!! Wow!!!' instead right? In other words, if you could make great pictures even without photoshop them, why not make marvelous by editing them? Its as simple as that.

Bear in mind, it's what the people think about your picture that makes it wonderful and not your ego. You can say that i'm a fool in thinking this but then, at the end of the day, it's still your picture for people to see and admire.

Below are some of the pictures that I've manage to tweek a little if not a lot. Although i'm still new at all this but to begin with a step, it's always a journey.

Have fun.