Quick question

[Elfin Yeti]

Do you look at this and say -- "PhotoShop" or do you look at it and say, "is that a photograph or a painting?"

[Elfin Yeti]

1. I guess I should include the photo... duh

And here is the original:

[hippywife]

4. It sort of reminds me

of the box on one of those paint by number kits. I've enjoyed the effects on some of your past photos but this one is a little overdone, I think.

:hi:

[REP]

6. Photoshop watercolor filter, right?

Not exactly how I like to use it, but everyone has different taste.

Here's a quick-n-dirty of how I usually set it to render, using a photo I took of one my masdevallias, which are a bitch to shoot (for me at least)

[CC]

7. Because I know a bit about photos and photo-shop

I would of said photo-shop right off the bat but it doesn't make it bad either. It is a better photo with the background removed and I like the painterly effect on this one (and a few of your others.) It does make me miss a filter a friend had given me long ago called Buzz Pro that did stuff like this. Lost if with the old hard drive. So my vote is yes looks like it has been shopped but that is not always a bad thing.

[Mira]

8. This is a real exercise: Thank you

You're showing the original and the photo being worked on:
For what it's worth the original is superior, and amazingly so.

I don't know why exactly, but genuine immediate emotional and not backed up feedback is not a bad thing.

I'm now off to give that same feedback to your other questions, if you still want them.

:)

[Celebration]

9. well, I like the Photoshop!

Yes I can tell it has been manipulated and don't think it is a painting, but the Photoshop one could be framed, and look great. The original couldn't.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I would say photoshop unless someone is a really fine painter.

[Elfin Yeti]

3. So that would be a negative response to the treatment?

Sometimes I find myself enjoying a photo in spite of its having been PS'd, and sometimes it annoys me.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. No, no, I'm not saying that at all.

In fact, the reason I said "photoshopped" is because I've done that to some of my own photos, which I end up liking, even though they do look a little "unreal."

...

I've just gone through my entire PhotoBucket looking for the illustrative picture I was going to use, which I had photoshopped to within an inch of its life (a moose shot I had taken in very low light), but the point being that even though it's obviously been manipulated, it just looks "cool."

[h8okra]

10. Photshop. N/T