Parental advice: Highly criticising content!

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Gosh, guys, it's INCREDIBLE what a HUGE amout of CRAP is done in Photoshop by people overestimating their art skills!

It's WAY not that I think of myself above average, but I really think there should be some kind of quality test before one can get his or her hands onto any photo manipulation programme. Or before one can upload the stuff that happens in your... first year of manipulating or sth...
Pictures that look like "Whee, the names of these three filters sound fancy" should just vanish from any hard drive by default. Gotta call Mr. Gates and ask if he could work the magic.
MY first works were hillarious! Extremely bad, crappy crap. And guess what, I REALIZED THAT! DIRECLTY when I did it! Sooo, the natural chain of actions was: Try nevertheless to get the working experience, save it -maybe-, but NEVER show it to ANYONE except some kind of mentor if avaiable.

I mean, ladies and gents, get some decency and honesty towards your own talents. You can't really think that some of the stuff you do is... showable in any way.............. Has anybody -any- idea how many pictures -I- just deleted after 5 hours of work because I just realized that I couldn't do it in a good, convincing way?!
Pasting a blurred model with a visibly bad removed background on a beautiful, premade background in about 5 minutes CAN'T be what you feel is good art...
( This is extremely uncomfy if this happens to a stock picture you yourself own... You just can't ( well, if you're nothing like me, lol ) write back saying "Sorry, this is bullshit, take it down or I'll punch you in the face for the shame you're pouring down on me."
( I - as the honest person I was raised to be - use to tell people if they screwed to gain something near to my usual quality level, and I try to do it in a constructive, polite way. They use to get pissed over it, but I just think that I don't have to let things out on the webs that make me look stupid in any way. xD )

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I just watched some tutorials on youtube on photo manipulation of any kind, and some of these just make me want to smash my head to the tabletop repeatedly.
E.g. I saw a video entitled something like "EXTREME PROFESSIONAL MAKEOVER VIDEOS" and it was just like... steal an already photoshopped celeb pic from google, use the liquify tool twice around the waist and change some selective colour slides... Omg.
Or muscle size enhancement... NO, cutting out the arm and just drag the transform corners a few inches DOES NOT LOOK GOOD!
Holy crap, do you people take a LOOK at the stuff you did after you're finished?


I just had to let this frustration out...


I know this probably belongs to my own manipulation account so pissed people ( why ever because I'm not talking to anyone in particular xD ) can just take revenge on my manips, but screw it, now I'm logged on here...

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Just to make that clear... some people on here are like... GODS to me. I admire a LOT of work that's shown here. And I'll tell everyone if I do. xD
And I also admire the people that post incredibly cool tutorials on the web. Even if you don't wanna redo the pictures, some tips and tricks are always helpfull.

Go guys, you rock.