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  • Fineus@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s almost about… knowing there’s a time to practice and experiment and make mistakes, and there’s a time to search out learning resources on the internet that’ll answer some niggling question or provide some vital tip in seconds.

    Youtube taught me some amazing software editing tips that would’ve taken me a lot longer by experimenting and making mistakes, but getting out and shooting helped me learn what I liked to shoot far more than any Instagram “Instead of this, try this” stuff.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m pretty confident I would never have ‘figured out’ frequency separation retouching just by ‘trying things out’ in Photoshop regardless of how many millennia I put into it lol.

      • okitha_irl@alien.topOPB
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        1 year ago

        That’s different. When you learn PS, you learn PS. Not How to edit pictures. you edit pictures the way you want.

        But if someone goes on Youtube searches for a photography tutorial and copies it step by step, its not the same thing. They aren’t learning photography, they’re copying someone else’s style.