Curmudgeon wrote:
I have no artistic skills at all. I can't compete with Linda, Dave, R.G. or the others with that ability. My college Art History instructor, after giving him my word never to take another art course, gave me a "C" out of sympathy. Physically I can't get out in the field shooting birds and bugs like I used to. And then along comes...
Artificial Intelligence is opening whole new vistas for me. I can make pictures of ancient Greece and watch Plato talking to his students, visit the holy lands during the crusades, prowl the back alleys of 18th century London looking for Jack the Ripper. I visit mythical lands and "take pictures" of their inhabitants. Have you ever photographed a ghost or a dragon? I extend my perception to the limits of the universe and beyond.
In Photoshop, Topaz, NIK and many other Post Processing applications, I can combine images to make anything I can possibly imagine. They are sometimes not "artistically" correct, sometimes shadows go in the wrong direction, lighting is not correct, or my characters seem to float above the ground. But I am getting technically better all the time.
I have no artistic skills at all. I can't compete ... (
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Good for you.
Have fun.
Just don't lie about the art and pass it off as a photo of something that never was.
But I fully support being creative in all mediums of art.