Why do people photoshop their pics?

I don't get excited about any of the pictures I see here except to appreciate a cool car/truck/bike and to take note of cool custom work perhaps. The degree of shine in the photos means absolutely nothing to me. All these top of the line products are going to produce a great shine. We each have a favorite for whatever personal reason but one is not better than another, just different and not very different at that.



I choose Poorboys stuff because it does the job, does the job easily without hassle, and the guy that makes it and sells it seems to me to be a quality human being. Choice made. No argument to make for or against anything else.



I think the photos are fun and neat, and instructional, and helpful and educational etc....but they carry no meaning as far as a products worth.



Don't believe what you see in shine photos. As a wize man once said "only my Momma loves me and sometimes I think she's jive'n too" .
 
I wasn't aware that anyone was blatantly posted altered pics. Learn something new every day I guess. The only ones I've seen that I know of were the ones geekysteve posted to show how playing around with the settings on a digital camera can change the look of the subject you are shooting. He was upfront about it and did it to show how you could alter pics. I don't think he used Photoshop though.



I take all my pics using 35mm print film using a Nikon N60 and have the pics put on a picture CD at Wolf Camera, and IMHO, the look of the picture is better than even the best of the digitals. Better color saturation, sharper image, etc. I learned when I majored in photography how to position subject with regards to lighting to get the best effect, but I certainly would consider that to be 'cheating' at all, just good photography.



Also, I resize and compress my pics using the free image optimizer at www.xat.com and I find that it resizes, compresses, etc with no noticable degradation of the original pic. If you are not using that program to resize your pics, you are really missing out on a very good tool.
 
Yeah, I dislike it when people shop their pictures. Then people try to make their cars look like the ones in the picture, but always don't because a chopped pic, is well an enhanced picture.



This picture is direct from CF card to Autopia (automatic setting on camera, I have no clue about photography.) What do you think?
 

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Poorboy said:


and Biff...it's a typical Ford paint job...but the orange peel does vary from panel to panel on all the ones I've seen...
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It is? Then damn it, how did it get on my Dodge Truck?? :scared
 
You don't even need Photoshop to be a fraud. Many times since joining Autopia, I've tried taking a picture of a finish that is HORRIBLE -- dirty, waterspots, oxidation, swirls, etc. But when I load the pic, it looks like an Autopia Moment: no swirls, no oxidation, high gloss. And this from somebody who doesn't even understand how to start enhancing a photo. I think there's a big risk that many photos are manipulated, and now I take all of them with a grain of salt.
 
Yea i noticed alot of people here use photoshop to make their car looks very shiny especially on the before and after picture.YOu could tell on the tailights or headlights.
 
ronald_m said:
Yea i noticed alot of people here use photoshop to make their car looks very shiny especially on the before and after picture.YOu could tell on the tailights or headlights.
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Uh, negative. If you polish the head and taillights, they will also shine.
 
This pic could be of my SVX speeding through the grass with new 18" Enkei RSF2 rims on it, passing an A4 going the other way....



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But wait!!! There's no driver!!!





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Personally I always found it kind of rude and priggish the way some members react when a picture is posted showing detailing results. Comments like "Wow, really polished those taillights huh? ;) " "how'd you make the ground so clean?" Kind of a situation where if you don't have anything nice to say dont say anything at all, or at least be strong enough in what you believe to come right out and call the person a fraud.



I mean, its all in fun, we get to see some gorgeous, and gorgeously detailed cars, we learn from each other whats the issue?



Hell, I cruise through the gallery, and while I see mostly great positive comments, I see the snide tongue in cheek ones as well that ruin the experience, and make me uninterested in sharing my own pics.



I personally feel its an issue of people getting a little overly uppity about nothing. People are proud of what they've done, they post a picture. Can't we just enjoy the picture without making the person out to be a fraud? I mean come on, a fraud?
 
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