In my opinion, using "photoshop" or "photoshopped" (sic) as generic terms without the proper capitalization reduces the value of Adobe's Photoshop trademark. As artists who live off our own intellectual property, should we contribute to that devaluation?
I am not connected with Adobe other than as a satisfied customer.
Dennis McClintock
McClintock PhotoGraphics
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, jimmy ramsey <jimmyramsey@...> wrote:
>
> I say photoshop the shit out of them. Its the final print that counts.
> Www.jramzphoto.com
> On Jun 23, 2011 4:44 PM, "Beutler Frederick" <fjb@...> wrote:
> > I do think it's useless, except as a way of describing some photographs.
> >
> > By the way, I used to do Cibachrome enlargments from Velvia slides. They
> never looked as what I described as "photoshopped."
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:41 PM, pdesmidt tds.net wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Beutler Frederick <fjb@...> wrote:
> >>
> >> > **
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The term "photoshopped" as in "This picture has been photoshopped" has
> >> > acquired the pejorative meaning of an image that looks fake (or even
> >> > bizarre) by an excessive application of post-production processing. One
> >> > often sees a "photoshopped" example with razor sharp edges or
> unconvincingly
> >> > intense colors.
> >> >
> >> > Fred
> >> >
> >> So then a cibachrome print made from a Velvia 50 slide could be said to
> have
> >> been "photo-shopped"? If so, then the term has become so ambiguous that's
> >> it's useless.
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >
> > Frederick Beutler, Ph.D.
> > Professor Emeritus
> > EECS Department
> > University of Michigan
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> > fbeutler@...
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> >
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