Mary Ellen Mark Quotes

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

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

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.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

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!'

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

Have you seen the cover of Newsweek? They have Martha Stewart on the cover, but it's not actually Martha. It's a doctored photo. They put Martha's head on a slimmer woman's body. And Martha was very upset about this. She said, 'Hey, if I wanted my face on another woman's body, I'd stay in prison.'

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.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

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

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

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.

I touch up photos so people look as good in their photographs as they did in real life.

I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.