How to treat the behavior of using retouching software in photography?

1, now is the digital age, not the movie age, and the movie age also has a later period, so it is difficult to be professional. Now that the image is digitized, the software can be used later. In the later stage of using the software, because of the low threshold, everyone thinks this behavior is very low-level and not awesome. That was not the case. It is also difficult to retouch the software in the later stage. If you want to restore a photo, you must study as you study photography itself.

2. As far as photography is concerned, software retouching is often essential, for example, high-light ratio sunrise and sunset photos without using nd mirrors and shaking black cards, such as the superposition of a large number of photos, such as the wrong white balance of the camera. Software retouching is a means, a technology and an artistic creation;

In the eyes of many people, retouching is to change the background with PS matting, which is considered as fraud. I think this behavior is disgusting, too. But this kind of behavior is not called photo retouching, it should be called drawing or doodling with software on the computer. Photography is to record the beautiful scenery you see, shoot it at a certain moment, and try to reproduce the feelings it brought you at that time, or enlarge or mark the emotions you saw that you wanted to convey to others through skills. The purpose of the later period is also for this purpose;

4. There is nothing shameful in the later period. There is no later period, so it can be said that it is not rigorous. What's more, if you want to record all the image information, the pictures taken by the camera are in RAW format. RAW is unrecognizable by ordinary picture-reading software. Do you think you can see it in computer software without changing the format? 90% of those who claim that they don't have a late stage are deceptive, just to pretend that they are awesome. The photos taken directly are also retouched by the camera's own software, such as gorgeous mode, standard mode and landscape mode. How to define whether it has been retouched? just the same really