Re: Photoshop

Jerry really nailed it when he said "..no body really knows where it is going". I've been a professional photographer all my life (advertising and photojournalism) and although retired, am still an active shooter. Right now, I am mentoring young students in traditional photography (analog)in my home darkroom/studio.
I am making the transition to digital and my Canon film cameras (3-Canon EOS-1V hs) sit idle while I learn my new Canon EOS-5D digital masterpiece...and the learning is hard to get.
Jerry is right...and I think there will be a time when my students who shoot b&w landscapes will some day have to have a statement on the back of their prints that says "This photographic is an original silver/process print and HAS NOT been digitally manipulated in any way.
The great tsunami if digital has a down side that few yet seem to see. The old adage that "The Camera Does Not Lie"..has been a common well accepted truth in the past..by the masses. In today's digital world, we know that this is no longer so...and we are the poorer for this change...and this new reality has really thrown the world of photographic imaging in to a kind of 'slow motion image of an explosion' and the pieces have yet fallen to the ground.