Photoshop fails its promise?

cmr164

The following quote is from www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/arts/design/29WOOD.html and is provided as an inducement to discussion. Please do refer back to the full article. Registration is required but is free.


The Eerily Lovely Children of the Photoshop Generation By RICHARD B. WOODWARD

Published: February 29, 2004
Fourteen years ago this month Adobe introduced Photoshop to the software market, a leap forward in graphic design that allowed any fool to cut, paste, shade and rearrange images with ease. One of the original "killer apps," this widely adopted program has also been widely abused. The temptation to play virtuoso riffs on the keyboard has led to countless pictures that aspire to be "futuristic" but reek of a moldy surrealism better done when scissors were cutting-edge. Photoshop may have been a boon to print advertising, but the compelling artworks it has facilitated have been scarce.
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pathfinder

cmr164 wrote:

The following quote is from www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/arts/design/29WOOD.html and is provided as an inducement to discussion. Please do refer back to the full article. Registration is required but is free.


The Eerily Lovely Children of the Photoshop Generation By RICHARD B. WOODWARD

Published: February 29, 2004
Fourteen years ago this month Adobe introduced Photoshop to the software market, a leap forward in graphic design that allowed any fool to cut, paste, shade and rearrange images with ease. One of the original "killer apps," this widely adopted program has also been widely abused. The temptation to play virtuoso riffs on the keyboard has led to countless pictures that aspire to be "futuristic" but reek of a moldy surrealism better done when scissors were cutting-edge. Photoshop may have been a boon to print advertising, but the compelling artworks it has facilitated have been scarce.
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He didn't seem to really like her images - too perfect, too pale, etc - But she is just one of thousands of artists that use PhotoShop. I suspect it is difficult to find published images that have not been through PS unless you are looking at art photography magazines. Even View Camera magazine is having articles about PS! And there are people making negatives in PS to print on an inkjet printer as a negative - to then print as a contact print for a positive in the darkroom - is that round about or what?!

wxwax

Interesting. He seems to condemn the use of PS, mostly because she artificially creates the kids' environment in her computer, and distorts their proportions.

But he doesn't condemn her use of PS to shade the kids themselves... he just doesn't really care for it. Kinda kitsch, he seems to be saying. And I get the sense that that's what he really objects to overall.

komet

wxwax wrote:

Interesting. He seems to condemn the use of PS, mostly because she artificially creates the kids' environment in her computer, and distorts their proportions.

But he doesn't condemn her use of PS to shade the kids themselves... he just doesn't really care for it. Kinda kitsch, he seems to be saying. And I get the sense that that's what he really objects to overall.

I suppose we could do away with camera and go back to the brush...but then you can "manually" make corrections!

wxwax

That's the point, to me anyway. He's talking about art, not reporting.