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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9653449" data-attributes="member: 891">Back in 1999 I got a job working at a Graphic Design company in the height of the first dot-com bubble.Every one of the designers had been trained on print media, magazines, fashion shows, etc. They'd all taken a few classed in things like using an old 'pre OSX' Mac and using old Photoshop and Illustrator.They had no clue how to do web page layouts. No one did. They had no idea about HTML and what you could or could not do.I did, thus my job.It was a new medium, new tools, and a new kind of client, and they had deadlines.So, we set about learning stuff. I taught them the limits of the technology and as tools like Flash, JavaScript, CSS, and so on came online I'd run them through a 'you can now do this, but not that' set of sessions.We made some ugly mistakes. sent out some bad files, and so on. But over time we mastered the new medium. That design house is still around today.Back in the 1850s somebody figured out exposing light to celluoid or whatever and photography showed up. Now you could get a near instant portrait of the monarch of the day and - that was it for painters I guess. Except it wasn't. Folks took in the new tools, mastered them, and many artists will even blend photos and paint.Some heretics even blend drawing and photoshop. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />There's a new medium right now, and the old skills are not relevant to it. Folks will learn it, incorporate it some of the time and not at other times. Art will move on.There's a LOT that can be done by mixing hand made work with AI assisted touch ups and AI added elements, back and forth, as just another piece of the process.You can also just be the 'polaroid snapshot' equivalent and type in 'give me my stuff' and get some 'basic pics'.People will learn to split the difference between art and 'quickie pieces' and things will move on.</blockquote>

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