MArnie wrote:There's good art and there's bad art. I seriously doubt that extreme manipulation can really make a bad photo a good photo.
You really need to see what a professional retoucher can do to save a bad photograph for which a client paid 15K. I've seen bad photos become great photos. Of course the purists can claim that after 8 hours of PhotoShopping it's no longer a photo, but anyone looking at it would say, "that's a great photo."
