Is it considered cheating ??? your opinions from the experts.

[NM5K]

It is handy for restoring old damaged images too. I've done quite a few old B/W images.
Never used photoshop.. Always used paint programs for the most part. Pretty much the same
techniques, but totally manual as far as the cut and pasting, etc. I did these over 10 years ago..
Most all are family photos that I wanted to clean up.
Doing things manually, I can do some things that might not be as precise automatic. IE: the
stain over the hair on the second one. I didn't clone new hair. I cut the stained part out,
lightened it to match, and then pasted it back down on the image. So it's all her actual hair
with no fake strands used.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

n/t

 

[nge]

AWESOME job, I also done one of my mother when she was 16 (B/W I'll have to dig the two examples up some day. I used PS9 Elements, took me about 3 hours getting rid of cracks, spots, etc....nge

 

[Richard@BackwoodsDetectors]

[size=large]Think of photoshop as a part of digital photography. When 35mm began slipping into digital, there were some individuals who claimed that photoshopping a picture was not really photography. In reality it is ! What I like to do though is use AP, SP or manual on the camera and see how little if any I work on the photo once I download it.. To really appreciate what you do more, try to use the camera so that you have the most input as to what the camera produces..Richard[/size]

 

[nge]

The pic I was refering to, is a total restoration of a B/W pic from 1948, my mother was 16 at the time.....nge