Ansel Adams Quotes

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

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.

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.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.

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.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

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!'

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

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

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

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

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

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

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know?