Photoshop

This book is great, if a little overwhleming. As I said in a previous blog, I've done a lot of work with photoshop, but never anything like this. 3/4 of the tools I've never used and while some of the things I understand what they are, like layers, some of the other things went over my head.

I do have to wonder however, when is an image edited to the point that it becomes bad history? Are we ethical in manipulating these images and presenting them as history? As suppose as long as one states that the image was enhanced/manipulated in photoshop, then it probably would be ethical. Of course, one could argue that some of the manipulations, such as repairing the man & cat photo like we did in class last week, actually enhances the photo historically. The photo was damaged by the ravages of time, and it was simply repaired to an appearance that was probably more like how it appeared when it was first shot. I guess the bottom line is, if I alter an historical photo in anyway through photoshop or whatever, I need to make that clear on my website or I would be doing bad history.