Kevin Systrom Quotes

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My pictures are airbrushed.

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

For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.

You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.

When Photoshop came around, I thought I'd died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, 'Oh, the good old days' or 'I'm old school,' I just want to puke. There's no tool I won't use.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

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

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

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've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.