As well as a big compliment to Hasbro's designers and sculpters.

A few days ago, a friend of mine came over to unstupid my computer. This is my desktop picture.
When she booted up the computer and the picture came up, she remarked, "Marine much?"

I asked her what she meant.

She asked, "That's you isn't it? From when you were in the Marines?"

I wish.

I told her it was a picture of a four inch tall action figure. She didn't believe me until I showed her the figure, as well as the Steel Crusher, which is actually sitting on a shelf right next to my computer desk. Even with it in her hand, she had a hard time believing the picture was of an action figure.

She is a proffesional photographer and told me how great the picture is, and appreciates good pictures. I showed her the JoeDios site and she was pretty impressed with most of the pictures folks had posted.

Unfortunately she doesn't believe in PhotoShop (I tell her all the time that it actually exists, but she is a Pagan and she doesn't believe in some of the same things I do), meaning her philosophy is if you have to doctor the picture, it's not really a good picture. I agree in some respects, but then again, how bad would some of our pictures look with strings and wire hangers holding our aircraft in place?

So...I took the kudos to me, but I felt it was a real compliment to Hasbro for creating such detail and realism in their figures.

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Some people, when trying to avoid thinking about those things that cause them pain, turn to drink, or perhaps food, or drugs... I turn not to any of those... I collect action figures, turning my mind to the hunt, so that I might find a mote of peace... Over the years, I've found that alcoholism is much more socially acceptable by far.

Now she'll have to visit the site! And sign up! And comment and stuff!

Any one in the photo industry uses PS! they actually have jobs were all people do is touch pictures up! I worked for a company that will remain nameless, in the erotic field years ago! All i did was take freckles and blemishes off of boobs and other places i'd rather not name! we all use it! you do not want to see a porn star before the makeup and the photoshop! lol! just having a digital camera is cheating if you are a hardcore photographer! but im not im a cheater! and I love it!

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hehe you touched boob. lol all jokeness aside

well its easy to confuse that figure for a RL person for the main reason you can't see the legs. and any of the joints are very well disguised either by your posing or the manufacturing of the figure

still its an awesome shot .

Flint and I don't use Photoshop in any of our pictures....we'd rather use our imaginations to recreate scenes.....not that PS isn't cool, we just like the challenge

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Kuddos for the compliment. Photoshop rocks!
I need to learn how to use it.

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That's great about your compliment.

What do you mean, she's a pro-photographer? If she's a studio photographer most do photoshop (or something like it). If she's a photo-journalist she probably doesn't, but she's got an editor someplace that does.

Studio portraits are really about who pays for them. They get what they want. Use the artists eye to help. We had a great wedding photographer who worked magic for some of our shots.

Photojournalists probably don't want to have doctored pictures because that alters what is really being reported/happening and throws off the context. Just by what she said, she's probably a photojournalist?

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I was a Photojournalist and we all use Photoshop. Mostly to brighten, sharpen, color balance, and to remove dust spots sometimes. It is against our ethics to, for instance, remove a person from a shot, but it is isn't against our ethics to make the sky bluer, the clouds whiter, etc.

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Slightly different for microscopy pictures in science, but along those lines. You take 2-3 pictures all of the same field with different filters. 1 bright field to give cell count and morphology, the rest set to the filter of your fluorescent molecule/tag (usually red and green, although there are yellow and blue filters that cost more). One can mark a particular protein or cellular structure, and you then merge it all together in and get a distribution. It was fun and I hope to get back to it soon or later.

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Is for constructive criticism (will even settle for destructive) just anything but "Nice shot" or "Awesome".

Photoshop is an awesome tool that can be used to enhance a picture or make a picture possible that is otherwise impossible to take. With that being said, there are universal factors that make or break a picture regardless of whether you are using photoshop or not. Posing is probably the most universal thing people agree on. Regardless of how well your setting and lighting are, or for that matter your muzzle flash and blur effects, if the figures are just thrown into the photo it really takes away from the sense of illusion that these are not little four inch plastic men. You put crap in, you get crap out!

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