Category: dumbo

My First PS

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I sit at a desk and on the floor is a set of embarrassing books: they are photoshop oriented. And they are foolish, popular, and embarrassing.

They wrap words around experience, limiting it, turning all optic patters into the ditch of commerce. As such, they are a waste of time, and life.

I speak as someone who wrote their first photoshop plugin back in the day — the day of adobe’s first api efforts. when adobe was young, I was already very proficient at the language of too many semicolons.

This is only offered as a caution to using an engineered vision, which is what photoshop provides.

I know you won’t heed this.

I know you will also eat too much salt and sugar.

I know that at some future date, you will regret those choices.

I know most of you don’t understand this.

Making Money Making Pictures

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Do you take pictures of things you like. Only?
Do people who make pictures like your pictures?
Can you take pictures of things you don’t like? Do you like those pictures, but not those things?
Are you bored thinking about this? Insulted that I’m asking? Confused about what this may mean?
Can you name 5 people who make pictures you like?
Would you like to talk with them? Do you know why you haven’t?

If you don’t enjoy making pictures of things you don’t enjoy, or if you can’t make those pictures interesting, then you can’t make money as a photographer.

The photographs have to be useful. This doesn’t mean, sharp, clear, bright, brilliant… it doesn’t necessarily mean those things, though to most people who buy pictures it does mean that, and usually at the low pay end of the swamp, that is all it means.