Is PHOTOSHOP an ENEMY to artist's CREATION?

Question

and other graphics software..

i mean what is the role of the artist as anyone can produce sheets to facinate our eyes?

Answer 1

the role of the artist for me anyway is to reveal glimpses of your soul to the world......

ya can use whatever ya want. wood stone underwear chicken calculators ceiling fans grass radio elves corduroy gravvy price tags smoke bootleg copies of paris hilton's sex video your mother's hairpiece(with permission of course) whatever

fact is photoshop can do a better job than ya traditional paintbrush etc. though i admit , the process is far less romantic.
it depends what your goals are huh?

but it would bug me to have my work discredited based on the fact that it was computer generated and such.

i guess we all get confused........

Answer 2

no, as a matter of fact, one artist who's name escapes me at the moment, paints very flat paintings, takes them to a large scale scanner and then adds very intricate details all with photoshop. He then takes that file to a presshouse that has a large watermark printing press has lithos made, on canvas, and then stretches that over a frame.
Just because you can turn around pieces faster in photoshop than you can with traditional tools doesn't mean it's an enemy. and once things are printed out it doesn't always mean that your finished with them. If your going to be small minded enough to call a tool of the trade an enemy then you are nothing but a tool.
Get off your high horse as an "artist" and use your mind to create new ways to "fascinate our eyes", for our mind is our only limitation and the only true enemy to an artist's creation.

Answer 3

Not at all. Photoshop is not a creative substitute, but a creative people's tool.

You can add thousands of filters and stuff to any image, but if your work has no meaning, the creative process never began.

On the other hand, many artists found in electronic media a very helpful way to express what in traditional media could only be done after years of work and hard-to-learn techniques.

Hope it helps.

Answer 4

Lots of right on answers here, I have to agree with most of it....Let me throw my 2 pixels in though and add that in order to make a successful piece that you still need to know composition, good design, balance, & color. If you don't you'll still make a pretty nice piece just by instinct and knowledge of the tool called photoshop. To me, photoshop, in combination with a digital camera, scanner, computer and a good draw program is the best art medium to come out in the last quarter century or more. Gotta love it.

Answer 5

no way is it an enemy! It's just another tool to make art, a new kind of art! It still takes talent to be able to use it creatively, so not just "anyone" can make art with it. the skill isn't in the program, it's in the artist's eyes and brain.

Answer 6

You still need artistic ability to create even if you are using photo-shop (or any other computer based drawing program). While the program makes some of the technical aspects of art easier (I can draw a straight line perfectly in photo-shop but not with a brush), it does not install the artistic vision or creative aspect of art.

So, to answer your question - No

Answer 7

I suppose in some ways that's true... but I think photoshop is just meant to allow people who are NOT particularly artistic to make something cool. Of course, actual artistry is much more impressive, but it's pretty cool what you can do with technology.

Answer 8

Photoshop is an awsome tool that even artist can use... I have a friend that makes a liveing useing that program...

Answer 9

absolutely not

just another tool. use it well

lyn