Ree Drummond Quotes

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

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

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

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

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

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.

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 love Photoshop more than anything in the world!

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.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

My pictures are airbrushed.

'Sports Illustrated' does extremely minimal retouching. Other publications, however... phew. They do a lot; I've watched myself be Photoshopped before. It. Is. The. Worst.

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.

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.

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!'

We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like 'Vogue' do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we, for example, apply Instagram filters to the pictures we take and share on our social networks.

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

A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but I think if the picture is made in MS Paint, the going rate might be slightly less.

I don't over-photoshop my images; I really don't like to do that so much.

My belief is that every single major magazine cover is retouched. I don't know how they couldn't be.

I used to touch up my pictures on the computer and send them to friends. I would change colours, the design, and stuff like that.

The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

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.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.