So right now I am a photography student at a technical college in my area. It seems as though most of my teachers are pretty respectable photographers.

There is one point they like to bring up quite often and that is not to use photoshop to often. Actually they tell us not to even say we will use photoshop because we will eventually get so use to saying we will start to use it just as often.

Now my teachers have been in the business for quite some time, before the days of photoshop and digital imaging. They all say that if you want to make money on your photos, a decent amount of money, you should try to almost never use such programs as photoshop or something alike. I have taken there recommendation and I now pride myself on being an amateur photographer that rarely ever uses photoshop(I'm still using photoshop 7). When I do use a program it is only to make minor touch ups, nothing major.

Photoshop is getting to become a very big annoyance in my opinion. Photoshop is simply a tool, not something to make every single image look good. People are abusing the power of computers combined with digital cameras and even scanners. To me its completely ruining the artistic aspect of photographer. All of my teachers have told us to never say "I'll just fix it in photoshop." Then you aren't being a photographer, you are being a graphic designer. If you can take a picture that needs no editing with a computer then you have truly created an artistic photograph.