>>4003965You will never be popular. You will never "make it" independent of how much photoshop you use or don't use. If you enjoy the effect photoshop provides to your images, then use it. If you don't, then you don't need it. Whether or not you need photoshop to produce soulless advertisements for products or services to show to the largely brainless masses is a question that has little relevance to anyone on here. If someone on here is in advertising photography, they probably know how much photoshop they need or don't need