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Originally posted by: Anchorhead
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
In 1999 I painted a portrait of a friend ....6 years after the painting was originally completed, I started to put together an updated portfolio ...I wanted to include what I considered to be one of my best pieces, but I didn't want to include the faults, so I took a high res photograph of the portrait, loaded it into photoshop and got to work rescaling the messed up perspective...

You're misrepresenting yourself to prospective clients.

How the fuck am I? They ask for something, I give it to them. What does it matter to me or them if I use a computer in the year 2005 to make the piece that they are paying for the best it can be. Every single poster or billboard you see has been through photoshop. If I had fixed it with a paintbrush (which would have made the original cease to exist, which is precisely why I didn't) is a moot point. I could have easily fixed the painiting with paint, but I don't see that it matters. Instead I have created a new digital piece based on the original. If I had gotten a friend to alter it for me and then put it in my portfolio as my own work, then that is misrepresentation, but that is not the case.