I think the best way to deal with photoshopping photographs is to see Photoshop as a way of finishing the photo. I like to get most of the work done in camera. Mostly what I do in Photoshop is to crop, straighten a wonkly horizon, correct colour and give the picture a bit of kick (which involves duplicating the layer, setting the blend mode to "overlay" or "softlight" and then running a high pass filter). other than that, I generally do very little.
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