Showing posts with label AfterShot 3 Pro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AfterShot 3 Pro. Show all posts

Monday, January 6, 2020

Photoshop is Overrated

Happy New Year!  Wow, it's 2020, sounds futuristic, yet here I am still creating in an old fashioned way.  Yes, I shoot digital now along with film, but I'm not over processing or over editing the images.
I really do like to keep to as natural and organic an image as possible. 
I know, I'll never be famous this way, but that's not why I do it.

Remember what attracted you to photography in the first place?  Was it twenty years ago?  Thirty?  Forty?  It was even longer ago for me.  I just loved art, mostly black and white photography;  landscapes, portraits, abstracts.  I wanted to create that.  So I got a camera and did it.
Back in those days the art of photography required a working knowledge of the camera settings, film and if you were really creative, the darkroom process.

Evolving into present day and using a digital camera, I still like to use the camera settings, filters and exposure techniques to get what I want.  There are still some post editing tweaks that I find necessary but I'm not using PhotoShop!  I had it once, CS6 I think, but honestly, it just left me flustered and confused.
I use Paint Shop Pro and AfterShot 3 Pro from Corel.  It's still a little daunting but all I need are some light editing effects.  I want a truly organic image that I can be proud of.

What are your thoughts about PhotoShop?  Do you use something else? 

Time Flies

 Where does the time go?  Already May 2025.  OK, let's catch up. In the past two months I have created several new designs and sold them...