Don computers pretty much automate the process of creating digital art?
This is a popular misconception fostered by software developers who want to market their products to lay users or to those with little or no computer and artistic skills. In the digital art world we call this “Red-eye-made marketing.” Many really good applications like Adobe Photoshop can enhance bad or damaged photos, but only to a very limited extent. Any such enhancements always result in unwanted trade-offs. For example, to eliminate scratches from a digitized photo, the software can be used to automatically mask the entire photo and, by so doing, make it appear blurred. The only way to restore a photograph and achieve professional results is through hard work, patience and skill, robbing good areas to repair bad, all the way down to the level of a single pixel. Digital art is even more complex if you’re using spatial geometric palettes like Bryce, Carrara, DAZ Studios, Maya or 3D Studio Max. The reason for this is that you must first learn to use these highly esoteric (and very ex
