Adobe is releasing it's Creative Suite 5 in 19 days. From what I hear from friends, many of them still haven't upgraded to CS4, and some of them have just started getting used to CS4. All of a sudden, BAM, the new CS5 is coming out! According to Wikipedia, CS4 came out in October 15, 2008. It has been only been 18-24 months, and they already have a new upgraded version? Talk about speedy technology!
With Photoshop CS5, you can be a photographer without knowing how to take good pictures, because Photoshop automatically creates it for you with its Content-Aware Fill tool! Yay everyone can be a photographer now! NOT.
This Content-Aware Fill raises a question that I never really found the answer from - what is photographic truth? From internet research, I found that photo manipulation has long been used for propaganda, nowadays, anyone who purchased Photoshop are able to manipulate photos in any way they want to. How can we trust photos anymore? Photography, in comparison to other art forms presents to us more truth than anything else. Now with CS5, it seems that photography is falling into the same category as painting and drawing.
Another problem I have with the new CS5 is that it is so easy and simple to retouch a photo, that anyone can do it. What about the people who work as a 'photo retoucher'? Is a photo retoucher an occupation anymore?
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