• @hperrin
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    66 months ago

    A lot of photographers will take a photo with the intention of cropping it. Cropping isn’t photoshopping.

    • Fonzie!
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      -16 months ago

      If I open an image in Photoshop and crop it, it’s photoshopping.

      • @hperrin
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        6 months ago

        You don’t have to open photoshop to do it. Any basic editing software will include a cropping tool.

        • Fonzie!
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          16 months ago

          So we agree cropping is plain and simple image editing, yes?

          • @hperrin
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            16 months ago

            Yes. I think the question was should it be labeled as “photoshopped” (or probably “manipulated”). I don’t think it should. I think those labels would be meaningless if you can’t event change the aspect ratio of a photo without it being called “photoshopped”.

          • @hperrin
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            6 months ago

            There are absolutely different levels of image editing. Color correction, cropping, scale, and rotation are basic enough that I would say they don’t even count as alterations. They’re just correcting what the camera didn’t, and often available in the camera’s built in software. (Fun fact, what the sensor sees is not what it presents you in a jpeg.) Then there are more deceptive levels of editing, like removing or adding objects, altering someone’s appearance, swapping faces from different shots. Those are definitely image alterations, and what most people mean when they say an image is “photoshopped” (and you know that, don’t lie). Then there’s AI, where you’re just generating new information to put into the image. That’s extreme image alteration.

            These all can be done with or without any sort of nefarious intent.

              • @hperrin
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                6 months ago

                I literally described to you what people mean by “photoshopping” in the comment you’re responding to. Can you really not tell that I know that? Also, dropping the r slur will definitely help get your point across, right? You’re really living up to your username.