There’s an interesting debate running online about the use of a new controversial feature in the upcoming Adobe Photoshop CS5. Specifically, the “Content-Aware Fill” feature that will apparently allow manipulation of specific parts of an image with ease.
Just to get it out of the way: such retouching isn’t new. There’s already third party software that can do this. But the CS5 implementation and that it becomes so accessible in an industry-leaving imaging editing package is apparently giving people the jitters over when a photographic image becomes so extensively manipulated it’s no longer representative of the skill of the fellow behind the viewfinder, but of his wizardry on the keyboard.
Personally for myself, apart from the usual exposure and light temperature corrections, the kind of image retouching I’ve done for myself are largely centered on removing Ling’s pimples, skin blemishes and whitening up everyone’s teeth in the photos I take.:)
Photoshelter interviewed a number of experts and industry persons in the field and got their opinions, and it’s worth a look here.
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