Photo Editing at Home with the Computer

Photo Editing at Home with the Computer

"Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught." Ellen Datlow

Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature School on Blog

Study each set - edited and unedited. Can you tell the difference? In what aspects? Describe. What tools of the Adobe Photoshop were used? How? Try in your computer.

 
“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”– Gilles Peress
 
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
– Robert Capa
 

Photo editing is the digital process of improving, altering, or manipulating a digital image using specialized software to correct flaws, enhance its appearance, or add creative elements. This process can include basic tasks like cropping and adjusting brightness and contrast, as well as more advanced techniques such as color correction, retouching to remove unwanted objects, and compositing to create entirely new images. AI
 
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when 

the people in it do.”– Andy Warhol
 
It's hard for people to understand editing, I think. It's absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you have to form it - this raw, unedited, very long footage. - Thelma Schoonmaker
 
Photo editing is the act of image enhancement and manipulation. 

This process is usually done with a digital photo editing software.
 

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”– Ansel Adams

 

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
– Dorothea Lange
 

 Some photos shown here were not really edited.  There are cameras, cellphones, and computer programs that automatically correct certain deficiencies of images.  Too much editing diminishes, if not destroy, authenticity of images.  Thus the adage, "You and I may lie but the camera doesn't lie." leaves room of doubt with modern photography.  By the way, photography has not earned its place as a bona fide form of art along painting, sculpture, architecture, or the so called visual arts. - AVRotor

 
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer 

and the viewer.”– Ansel Adams

“Photography helps people to see.” – Berenice Abbott

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
– Marc Riboud


“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld
 

 

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”

– Peter Adams