Some of my favourite Northern bloggers have discussed photoshop the last few days, starting here. Mongoose, Jen and Tina have all given their opinions on the matter (and some others as well, but I work on a laptop and have problems enough with adding links to pages I follow regularily… Technically challenged or what!) Now, let me put in my 5 cents worth into the discussion.
Bagheera and Mowgli happened to lie down together last night – long enough that we could take some pictures of them. I cropped it a bit to get rid of the top of a metal leg at the bottom of the picture – and I would also like to colour in the eyes on Mowgli so he doesn’t look like something out of “Pet Cematary”. I can probably do that in a program already on the PC, I just haven’t figured it out yet.
Aside from that I would like to add a watermark to my pictures…. Not that they are of such immeasurable value, just because I want people to know who took them. I’m sure there are ways to steal images, watermark or not – but I can at least make it somewhat harder for the one so inclined!
Finally – when I see pictures like the ones Clare produces, I would also like to be able to “play around” like he does with some images.
Jen and someone else pointed out that there was an awful lot of editing going before digital photography as well, which stands to reason. I guess my point is that the main thing is to be honest about it…
