Creating Paintings in Photoshop

A long, long time ago (really long) there was a buzz around the artist community that computer art was not really art. People who worked on computers were mathematicians or scientists (not artists). A purist would think a retouched digital photo was blatantly inauthentic — just wrong. Photo effects has grown-up. We are expected to take the image to the extreme. Instead of a re-shoot, there is a re-touch, even if that means all night. Photos are more correctly called images, and maybe soon, we will drop the ‘photo word’ completely and just call it art. Here’s some of my own painted photos captured around Cape Ann, Newburyport and Boston North. Yes, a graphic designer can also be a photographer (but don’t say it too loudly you’ll upset the purists).

I’m using this collection of photo paintings to develop web galleries. I have several web accounts using galleries, and all websites need quality images. It’s been a challenge to get the best image with the smallest file size and the fastest load time. Expectations, along with technology, keeps changing. A site older than three years get antiquated really fast in terms of image quality.

Image optimization is a major consideration — that the image is best quality, yet hard to pirate. All images should have naming conventions which are advantageous. Images which are tagged and have meta data attached are better found on the web.

See more photo paintings at Photogeoia.