If you ever wondered, why all too often people call themselves Experts and Pro, but at the end it turns out
that they are the only ones doing it.
I’m just dumbfounded, when a reputable source – in this case DPhotoJournal let Tutorials like this go through
unchecked. Follow the link to the tutorial.
That has little to do with advanced. It’s more like being desperate. The blur effect is painfully obvious and when
looking at the images, the unedited version looks much better, because it’s natural.
Postprocessing that can be seen is bad enough, but when it’s so obvious than it’s just bad craftsmanship.
Why am I ranting about this? It should be a delight for me as a professional. But it ain’t so. Lowering standards
is in general not a good thing – because we are going to see a slew of hideously retouched images as a result of
it,and their authors think they did good – was their source of knowledge an Authority. That will be their argument.
And that it even said “advanced technique”. So it must be right and must be good.
No thanks. Fact is – that no Professional would touch this method with a ten foot pole.
Aside from the fact that there are ready made plugins, dealing with exactly this problem, tools
like Healing Brush, Airbrush do a much better job than blurring.
A note at the side. Going back to the tutorial I saw that a similarly critical comment than mine had
been removed. Feeling guilty as charged?
