People over Photoshopping themself

When people ask me to Photoshop their photographs that I took of them ethical questions start to pop in my head. Why even take pictures, if you are going to Photoshop it to the point where it dose not even look like you any more?Dont get me wrong Photoshop is an absolutely wonderful tool, but like anything else it can be horribly abused. There's a learning curve with it, but some people seem to believe that a photo looking very photoshopped means that it's well photoshopped. The whole point of editing is subtlety - it adds to the overall image without actually taking over it (obviously, there are exceptions to that one). I've had a little play with it to show you some terrible examples, and hopefully you won't put anything equally bad in your book.

("This is a great image the lighting is right and the model looks great.")

 ("Comes to the point where you cant even see the face.")

 ("Photoshop their body to have less or more of something or to try to make themselves look younger")

 ("change the color and add a bunch of pictures stamp to the point where there is no more picture")

These are pretty much the most over-used photoshop effect I've seen. I don't know whether to blame photographers for thinking it looks half decent. or models for having such shitty skin that photographers are willing to butcher their images to make it look half-decent. I don't know. But it's not going to look great - it'll just make viewers think you really look that way. It looks particularly creepy when you lasso and copy the eyes and lips to a new layer blurry eyes and lips are odd-looking and stick them on top. It does make it look like they're stuck on. Retouching skin is a long, strenuous process that takes people hours upon hours. You can't just use a single filter to get it done.

Don't get me wrong, all of these tools can be used to great effect; that's why they're on there! However, you need to learn to use them. You need to put time and effort into editing. You need to understand that there is no 'quick fix' to get an image to the level of what you find in magazines and on billboards. And there isn't a single effect that you can use to make an image 'finished'.