Demo of a CS5 Image Manipulation

[OrcaBob]

I'm still on CS3 and don't have a machine powerful enough for CS5, particularly this image manipulation. But it's pretty slick.



BTW, the big Victorian mansion shown at 0:30 of the video is the Carson Mansion in Eureka, California. At one point in college, I lived just down the street from there.

[NCPhotoTrekker]

That really is a slick trick!! It goes against everything that I believe about photography but for those that don't mind a little manipulation this is going to be the way to go. I do like how easy it is to remove an element, or move it without all the cloning that would be needed with other programs.

[OrcaBob]

Yeah, I was amazed by the technology but a little disturbed that such cool work can be done with a few idiot-buttons.

Greg, I can understand your reticence about that kind of image manipulation. "Fixing" or "enhancing" nature could well raise expectations in a way that dismisses nature's true inherent beauty.

In sports photography -- which is largely photojournalistic in its nature -- falsifying the shot is generally a bad thing.

But in commercial advertising, which generally emphasizes impression over realism, this feature would be very welcome.

[NCPhotoTrekker]

Not only commercial applications but also in digital art. I really do think that those who can do all sorts of manipulations and enhancements deserve to have their own art form. Much more time is spent working a photo or several of them than is spent actually framing and capturing. It becomes more about what can be done to the image files than the images that form the files themselves.

I do love all the technology that is coming out because it will open the doors to greater things for all of photography. I just hope that there will still be value placed on getting the picture right with that most rudimentary of tools...the camera.

[Steve (FloppyDog)]

Wow, that's really cool. I'm still trying to figure out CS3.