Hi, [...] > When painting started taking off (a thousand years ago??) one of the objects > was to make realistic paintings. Just before photography was invented, the > painters started using lenses to project images on to the canvas. This way > it became easy to paint realistic portraits etc. Since photography took over > the realistic stuff, painters have invented all the abstract styles of > painting, which photographers couldn't really accomplish. [...]
I saw a book yesterday about using Photoshop to 'paint'. Obviously painting is now dead, too, so people can throw away their old brushes and messy pots of oil. -- Cheers, Bob
