Originally posted by daacon PP is to tweak the shot with whatever tool you use until YOU are happy with it. You will always find 10 people that like whatever you did and 10 people that have an issue with something so might as well please yourself.
Thanks for the info, Dave. I was shooing RAW and realized that PP does some minor tweaks automatically, so I see what you are saying.
I grew up in Taiwan, and these is a saying from that country that goes, "Don't paint feet on your snake." It pretty much means that you should know when enough is enough, and where adding more would damage what is already a finished and good product.
I find myself wanting to push an image further and further (unnecessarily so) until I have painted feet on my snake! So I always feel kind of weird using PP, asking myself, "Have I gone too far?"