Andrew Chorley wrote:
When do you think ethically we should stop at photoshop'ing an image? Especially in a culture where a lot of naive woman aspire to a look that cant be matched.

-When the image no longer resembles the original model (unless you're turning them into some weird creature).
-When it looks fake.

Robert Randall wrote:
I don't think you can ever go too far, the mere mention of that as an endpoint is a limitation. If in the end, you have pushed a picture to the point of containing one dark pixel in a canvas of white pixels, revel in the fact that you have one more pixel to play with.

Agreed...

c_h_r_i_s wrote:
That's to the point when a client has no idea what the difference is between good work and bad work but pays.
We have all probably seen mags with poor retouching work.
As the post above in regards to glamour models ' give them what they want'.

Disagree...

There's a couple of guys on here:
http://www.bymichaelo.com/

http://factory1019.com/

Does their Photoshop go too far ? or is it part of the work ?

Paul

c_h_r_i_s wrote:
That's Sfx. I'm looking at more straight retouching.

I think that is why you are finding disagreement. Most in here advocating no limits are talking photoshop as a medium, while you're talking retouch only...

Paul

Photography by John wrote:
I don't know if editing can go too far - it can however, go wrong....

There should be a thread, "When Photoshopping goes bad".  I've had a few experiments that went horribly wrong.  Unfortunately, some people post stuff like that thinking it's good.

I have some of my earlier work that I thought was good.  I look back now and go, "what what I thinking".