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This is actually really useful. A lot of people demand an "unprocessed" photo but don't understand what they're actually asking for.
by emodendroket 10mo ago
This is actually really useful. A lot of people demand an "unprocessed" photo but don't understand what they're actually asking for.
- Dylan16807 10mo agoThey probably do know what they're asking for, they're just using an ambiguous word.
- Toutouxc 10mo agoMy mirrorless camera shoots in RAW. When someone asks me if a certain photo was “edited”, I honestly don’t know what to answer. The files went through a RAW development suite that applied a bewildering amount of maths to transform them into a sRGB image. Some of the maths had sliders attached to it and I have moved some of the sliders, but their default positions were just what the software thought was appropriate. The camera isn’t even set to produce a JPEG + RAW combo, so there is literally no reference.
- galleywest200 10mo agoI just tell people it was “color corrected” and “color graded” by me if I do any development in a program like Affinity. I never let “AI” tools touch my photos though.
- emodendroket 10mo agoI don't really think so! I think they imagine that if there were no processing applied to the image it would look pretty much like what they see IRL but that's not true.
- Dylan16807 10mo agoSome of them might literally want no color correction and still expect it to look like real life, and that expectation is wrong. Some of them might want the most accurate generic mapping, accepting the consequences, and that's reasonable enough. And I bet a lot of them mean they want no retouching, and that's a very valid demand.
- emodendroket 10mo agoEven if we reinterpret it into the more "reasonable" categories I'm not convinced they'd be happy with what they're asking for. I think users are generally very poor judges of what they actually want in cases like this.