My computer is magical!

[Taboo]

Dear clients, I understand that you believe Photoshop is pure magic birthed by unicorns and glittering with pixie dust and cheap lens flare effects, but I'm afraid that you are mistaken. It is a fantastic program, but unfortunately it does not impart any mystical powers upon the user. Deleting someone from a photo? I can do that. Deleting them and then replacing it with a better image of them from a second photo? Sure. However, please please stop asking me to turn people around who are facing away from the camera.

Bonus points if your response to this new information is "But his face is just on the other side! I don't understand why you can't do it!"

[Sonoma]

I think my brain just broke....but then again, I do understand the basic concept of photography. It's only a technology that's been around for a few hundred years.

[Taboo]

You'd think it would be obvious... yet I get this question at least once a week.

[Kristev]

These people think you can work miracles. Stupidity is the ultimate trump card. There's a reason they call "The Fool" the excuse in Tarocchi.

[fireheart]

http://notalwaysright.com/magic-ink/4840

I couldn't help myself

[mikoyan29]

They've watched blade runner or something where the computer can scroll around the room and turn it around and what not....

[Crossbow]

Wait until CS5 comes out. I think that's a plugin.

[Taboo]

Wait until CS5 comes out. I think that's a plugin.

CS5 does some AMAZING stuff. The video teasers for it are blowing my mind. I think that a lot of the changes, however, may be limited to the more expensive Pro version.

[Eireann]

I think my brain just broke....but then again, I do understand the basic concept of photography. It's only a technology that's been around for a few hundred years.

Not two hundred years, yet. But we have time!

I used to work in a photo lab (film), and one of my coworkers told me the same story. Someone brought in a negative in which everyone was turned away from the camera, and asked, "Can you print this negative the other way, so I can see their faces?"

[Crossbow]

CS5 does some AMAZING stuff. The video teasers for it are blowing my mind. I think that a lot of the changes, however, may be limited to the more expensive Pro version.

Mine too. It'll be interesting to see if it's as easy as they make it look.

[Sparky]

http://notalwaysright.com/magic-ink/4840

I couldn't help myself

<sarcasm>Oh great! That site is addicting and endless! I'd have been better off if I never discovered it. Now I'm going to get fired for goofing off at work because I can't stop reading it and it will all be your fault! I hope you're happy!</sarcasm>

[vstorevigilante]

http://notalwaysright.com/magic-ink/4840

I couldn't help myself

Read that the other day and was about to link to it too, you beat me to it. Obvoiusly, the idiots are rampant and wide-spread.

[Mr Hero]

<sarcasm>Oh great! That site is addicting and endless! I'd have been better off if I never discovered it. Now I'm going to get fired for goofing off at work because I can't stop reading it and it will all be your fault! I hope you're happy!</sarcasm>

I clicked another story from that site while on the CS forums, and I too have drained many many hours into reading those stories.

[earl colby pottinger]

Depends

Not two hundred years, yet.

Basic knowledge about principals involved does go back for centuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura

[ottid]

I used to work in a photo lab (film), and one of my coworkers told me the same story. Someone brought in a negative in which everyone was turned away from the camera, and asked, "Can you print this negative the other way, so I can see their faces?"

Turn negative over and print.... Not knowing much about photo developing you get either a blank page or the same photo that they already have n mirror image? Teeheehee