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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pe'rigin" data-source="post: 1229830" data-attributes="member: 48320">AD,Yes, there would be two different results, based on what we regard as ‘commercially acceptable’. There are lots of factors too many to list which effect that statement. Skill level is undoubtedly near the top as well as being close to the bottom. If we take photography, there is a huge demand for easy ‘click on’ software to solve our image ‘problems’, be it out of focus pictures to noise in images, etc. We clearly require programmers to correct our faults.People are altering images without really understand the what’s and why’s. The results of this manipulation can be seen daily all around us.Now, these ‘operators’ are using similar equipment and software. But the basic photographic principles have not and never will change.I might have an over critical eye, but I’m sure other people in other trades must see the ‘DIY’ that goes on in their profession and despair.Your analogy over Picasso is the wrong one to use because the purchaser is buying into a life style, investment, snob value, etc, they’re not buying a picture to vandalise. But, if you used mine and commissioned Picasso to paint your house, then you might have reason to complain…. After you had sold it!</blockquote>