but feels like ... cheating? the sky didn't look like that!
Depends on what you're doing and what you're trying to achieve. It's an ad photo? Really, who cares, we know they are all "fake". You're known for heavily manipulating your photos for artistic purposes and you do it openly? Fine. You're trying to make your portraits more appealing to make your customers happier? It's OK.
You trying to sell me the image "documents reality"? Let's talk...
The bigger risk with these tools is most manipulations will look alike - when you have to achieve them yourself your experience, taste, etc. will make them different, even if it's still some algorithms beneath.
But when the algorithms takes control of everything...
Upvote
0