David Attenborough Quotes

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

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

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

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.

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

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.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

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.

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.

My pictures are airbrushed.

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.

I'm an image-maker.

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

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

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

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

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.

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

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

NAPP was created as a resource for people who are serious about Photoshop. NAPP is designed to keep our members on the cutting edge of the latest developments, tips, and tricks used by some of the most accomplished Photoshop professionals.

With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren't careful.