I'm a animation student and today at school I overheard that designers(graphic, animation, A/V) should NOT use FILTERs in PHOTOSHOP and not to use them at all.... Any Pros out there?? what do you THINK????
PHotoshop filters BAD???antispam
There's alot of snobbery among any pool of Photoshop hobbyists or professionals - clearly, using a simple Filter and not changing any of it's specs is easy, and does not a designer make.
In the long run, you have far more flexibility in what you can create if you have a solid grounding in a range of Photoshop skills that are suited to a variety of tasks. Using Filters, and Filters alone, is like using pre-programmed jingles on a Casio keyboard instead of learning to actually compose using the keys.
However, it's horses for courses - if what you're artwork really needs is a default blue lighting effect, and you've created the original image and acheived the result you were after, why would you avoid using this amazing tool which, after all, was created because it can be used to great effect?
Having a good eye and a unique vision are what makes a designer. Designers were producing great design simply before Photoshop existed. As a Photoshop addict, though, I've found that having a decent grounding in alot of the basics actually fuels ideas I'd never have considered before since things such as Layers and Masking and Transforming allow so many easily reversible, yet profound alterations that I'd never be able to try any other way due to time/mess/money constraints.
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