“We all look at photoshopdisasters.com,” New York-based still life photographer Nicholas Eveleigh told me during a recent interview. He was referring over reliance on postproduction to try to correct the uncorrectable. “One can make some REALLY nice images without Photoshop,” said Eveleigh, who tries to get it right in-camera.
I said, “Yes” when Eveleigh mentioned Photoshop Disasters, as if EVERYONE knows about it. And according to the site, 30,000 photographers head there each day, indicating that, um, just about everyone on the planet is in the know. But, um, I wasn’t.
If you’re not aware of Photoshop Disasters either, become one of the “all” Eveleigh mentions and check out this rockn’, fun and definitely education site. You’ll be happy you did.
Powered by Blogger, the interface is easy, the content wild. What’s really great is that the community vibe is palpable, with thousands of followers, robust comment threads, and readers encouraged to submit blunders—and then receiving an honorable mention and a link to their own sites. (Although anonymity is certainly possible.) As the PsD says:
“Have you seen a TRULY AWFUL piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter. And yes, deep down, we LOVE Photoshop.”
Check out the horrifying elegance of yesterday’s post. Impressive, but, um, yikes.
Go PsD!
