This is describes creating an art image with photos and digital editing tools the same as an artist with paints builds a painting. A far different process than many of us do with our PP programs. To enhance an image in PP is no different than having your own dark room _ like Ansel Adams - and using chemicals, light and other darkroom tools to enhance ones image..
For several years while belonging to a camera club that had once a month competitions with pro judges I heard this statement over and over "If you had your own dark room you could do this or that" When we had our first "show and Tell" night with a presentation of digital photography and photo shop's capabilities to improve images I knew I had to change as it gave me that dark room these judges talked so highly of.
Mac wrote:
I was going through Flipboard this morning and came across an article "How To Add Clouds In Photoshop." And it made me wonder if this is where photography is headed: pick a subject, pick a foreground, pick a background, then blend them all together in Photoshop.