Photo Retouching Quotes

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.

My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

Using the correct apps can completely change how your photos look. It's really exciting because once you've already taken a good photo, it can become 10 times better if you use the right combination of apps. My favorites are VSCO Cam, Afterlight, Facetune and SKRWT.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

I try to keep my filters simple. I don't do anything major to my photos.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours on my thumbnails sometimes just because it's, like, fun.

Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?