Ok, Quick question for people paying attention and all the dioers here in dioland.
Who here uses photo editing software to enhance their images?

I don't mean just to crop them, or to resize.. I mean the whole kit kaboodle... lens flare, recolouring, changing lighting and advanced effects.. layering and what not.

I'd also like to hear which members dont use editing.. and just setup outside going completely natural shots.. no editing..

Also .. what do you have preferences over in dio shots? A shot thats completely natural and outside terrain.. or set built shots?
Rich

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Not.
One.
Bit.
of.
Photoshopping.
EVER.



I use my own eyes and whatever clever props I have lying around.......most notably my old 'hair water bottle' that's red........gives me the 'Red Alert' effect that I sometimes employ.........

Other than that, just the 'fishing lights' to pinpoint light source...........

Then I crop my shots down to the size I am satisfied with.......

As for preference?? If anyone's ever paid any sort of attention to the pics I post.......then you know that I 'shake it up' and switch whether it's an outside or an inside shooting schedule......depending on what I want/need/am in the mood for..........

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I use MS Paint to add "special effects" where needed. It's mostly just adding muzzle flash or blood to a certain scene. Sometimes I need to crop out parts of the background, I do that with MS Paint too, so it looks very "low budget" so to speak...
I use very little digital modifications. I usually just try to get it right on camera.

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As you most likely have guessed, I am rather partial to a bit of photo editing. I use Adobe PhotDeluxe, which is a kind of like a Photoshop Lite. I love playing around with it just to see what it can do. I mostly use it for adding effects, but sometimes for some cut & paste, or to remove unwanted background objects. Having said that though, I still post plenty of shots with absolutely no re-touching whatsoever. Sometimes you just don't need it.
As for inside/outside preference, I mostly shoot outside, as I prefer natural light and natural settings. But I will certainly shoot inside on a set if the shot is meant to be indoors. Some night shots I'll do inside as well, especially in summer when the mosquitos are biting.

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The best program I have is MS Paint. haha

Most of my shots are not edited. I have used MS paint to add little effects to my shots. I have made some shots darker using MS picture manager. I prefer to not edit, unless it is needed to make a shot look right. I would use photoshop if I had it. I like to take shots outside, but we have a big mosquito problem. For now I have to work on the indoors stuff.

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Most of my stuff is unedited. So far, the only things have done was add some "gore" to them.

As for preference, I like working outside. I'm not opposed to working with sets especially when it is called for.

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I don't have photoshop; just got a very basic editing suite that lets me resize, crop, etc. fine but in terms of effects it's extremely limited. The only time I ever did anything to a pic was on this one because even though I took it at dusk it really didn't look that different from any daytime shot. I wasn't overly impressed with the results and haven't bothered fiddling with anything since. I've never added SFX but I did use MS Paint to do speech/narrative and a fancy comm-talk panel for my mini-story and it took way too long for what I got!

As for location, I much prefer going outside. Natural light always looks best in my pics and I'm fortunate to have a back yard available with lots of different environments. Plus, being 6'4", it's nice to have room to stretch out when I'm lying on the floor looking through the viewfinder. Plus getting some fresh air and sunlight is always a good thing!

The main reason I prefer outside, though, is probably because I'm lazy and it means I only have to set up & pack away figures rather than mess around with sets & lighting too...!

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THIS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT I DO. I HAVENT TRIED THE MS PAINT YET BUT I HAVE THE CAPABILITY.