[Jewelry making - Article 00223] - Re: [Orchid] Photography and Juried Shows

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Hi Helen:

    I hate to differ, but photoshop most emphatically *can* destroy data.
    It all depends on how you use it. 

    Photoshop has various modes of working, and ways of saving images.
    Some are totally lossless, some will trash an image in 2 save cycles.
    I guess the easiest way to say it is that photoshop takes no
    prisoners. If you want to do something really silly, it'll let you.
    The other thing to remember is that photoshop has grown up over
    years. The early tools got the easy-to-recognize names, such as
    'brightness/contrast' or 'color balance'. That left the better tools
    that were developed later stuck with weird names like 'curves' or
    'levels'. If it's got a simple, easy to recognize name for what
    you're trying to do, be suspicious. It's probably not the tool you
    want. (Who'd have guessed the at the standard sharpening tool is
    called 'unsharp mask'?, while 'sharpen' is to be avoided like the
    plague.) 

Regards,
Brian.
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