[Aaron @ Feb 2nd 2007 8:59PM]

One of my close friends is an undergrad for Photojournalism and he uses Photoshop for every single photo he takes. Whenever he gets a photo he adjusts the hue and contrast to bring out certain colors and add depth. Sometimes, no matter how good a photographer, the light just isn't there. You also have to add in that in photojournalism, you can't always pick your shots.

A good example is the fight he witnessed in New Orleans. You can't pick the fight, you can't pick your lighting and you don't have time to set up your camera. Photoshop cannot be banned completely, otherwise photographers would never make deadlines or loose some beautiful pictures.

[Tom @ Feb 2nd 2007 9:18PM]

Photoshop corrections (i.e. same corrections available in a pro color darkroom lab) are of course going to be used frequently and legitimately in digital photography. It's an entirely different thing when elements are added, removed, or changed outright via photoshop. It becomes digital art, rather than photography. If your photojournalist friend were to ever photoshop an image beyond standard tonality and hue corrections, he'd be fired without question in an instant. That crap doesn't stand on its' own in the professional real-world - ESPECIALLY photojournalism and documentary work.