photoshop
Hi KMAR66...
You know that other ID you used to post under? Well, that ID was enjoying a two-month temp-ban when you started posting as KMAR66, so both of your IDs are now perm-banned. Maybe you'll find a board someplace where asshat trolls are welcome. This isn't it.
Ignoring the ban for the moment, I was puzzled by this post. As Pal and many, many others have pointed out, virtually all the photos that appear on these forums have been worked. When I worked in the business we didn't have tools of the quality or ease-of-use of Photoshop, but virtually every published photo was worked prior to publication.
While I sometimes wince at the morphs I see here, it is certainly not a cause of moral outrage; the morpher thought he could improve the picture, just as cropping, or burning in, or dodging improved the pictures of 40 years ago. I commend to KMAR66 Rene Magritte's painting, "This Is Not A Pipe". This business is about fantasy; a bit of photoshopping is hardly cause for moral outrage.
Mod edit: it's not my place to speak for gonZo, but I think his objection stemmed from a user under a temp ban defying that ban to come back and post anyway, not from the user's comment about retouched images. If I'm mistaken, I'll stand corrected. -Palomine
I'm confirming Pal's assumption: my main problem with KMAR66 was that at the time he started posting, he was temp-banned under another username, and it has long been the policy here to permanently ban anyone who posts in defiance of a temporary ban.
My lesser problem with the post was that this user had a history of trollish posts (several of which had been about Wendy) that were seemingly intended solely to piss off other users. So the post in question (in which he wrote "photoshop" about an image that doesn't appear to have been photoshopped) was seen as a continuation of a behavior about which we'd already warned him several times.
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gonZo
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SwitcherX, I love that shot. Wendy's smile is electric.