Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Photoshop CS5 for a photographer - will it help or kill ?

You should see it yourself to get thrilled with the possibilities opened to you through the features of new Adobe Creative Suite 5 .
All those nights spent doing routine cleaning, hair removing and background separating you may now devote to your family instead. Because CS5 will do it for you in just a few seconds. Really. And even much-much more.
That Context Aware Fill is just fantastic I wouldn't believe if I didn't see how it works.
Automatic lens correction will save architectural and interior design photographers as well as product photographers from huge pain.
Selections tools look so smart and precise and fast that I just want to have it immediately :)
Isn't it all great?
Something scared me here though - with all these perfect tools there is a way of pushing photography business even deeper in that hole... you know... Because soon everyone will know that it cost almost nothing to change background, perspective, facial expression and even pose of a person in a portrait (did you see their new 'puppet warp' tool?) for whatever you need in just seconds - you don't need to actually PHOTOGRAPH the PERFECT scene. It's happening now already but with  CS5 it'll be more common - that's what I'm afraid of. Clients will go even cheaper on photographers, relying on post-production more than ever.
I'll pray that I'm wrong :)

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