un-freakin' believable

[Andy]

i get all the photo mags sent to my house. many i don't want, but they come any way. popular photography came yesterday. they have a section called "the fix" where they [supposedly] fix your photos and show the results in the mag.

spot the *horrible* masking done here in this photo?

http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/8655327-L.jpg

http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/8655326-L.jpg

this is the sort of thing that makes me ill. they have a big readership, and are influential to many photo-hobbyists.

in my layer mask tutorial [here] (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=2044) i talk about the importance of doing the fine-edged brushing at 200, 300% magnification, and using brushes of lessening opacities. then you won't get this horrible exposure mis-match :D

[cletus]

:rofl

Andy,

I'm working on a notebook PC with a fairly crummy display... at first I couldn't see anything wrong with the picture. Then... I tilted the notebook and started looking at the screen from a different angle and wow there's the bad mask.

[wxwax]

I see lots of old film prints where the dodging and burning are extremely obvious. I wonder why that aesthetic is no longer acceptable?

[Andy]

I see lots of old film prints where the dodging and burning are extremely obvious. I wonder why that aesthetic is no longer acceptable?

i agree, sid ... there's a time and place for that, and i've used the effect. but in this case, it's just poor photoshop work in the area of exposure correction. and this is a major national publication, in the "how-to" section of the mag :dunno

[pathfinder]

i agree, sid ... there's a time and place for that, and i've used the effect. but in this case, it's just poor photoshop work in the area of exposure correction. and this is a major national publication, in the "how-to" section of the mag :dunno
As we work and play with image editing, I think we begin to develop a more critical eye - I see adds in national publications with such obvious PS editing flaws that I am astounded - I remember one by Jeep showing a Cherokee ostensibly driving rapidly up a dry gravel gulch with no dust or debris behind the traction wheels - Once you noticed it it stood out like a sore thumb. But apparently most of the general public does NOT notice these things:dunno