Did digital technologies made the way to becoming an artist more easy for people

Question: Did digital technologies made the way to becoming an artist more easy for people with no talent!?
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Not at all!. The technologies merely provide new tools, the way colored dust made way for oils, acrylics gave some advantage to oils, digital cameras have some advantages over film!.

But none of these things can actually create art!. It still takes skill to create good works!. One can't expect anyone with no artistic skill to, suddenly, create works of art, simply because he spent some money on Photoshop!. Even someone who has spent a LOT of time learning how to use Photoshop or any of those digital applications, still won't know what makes good art!.

Think of it this way!. If you were to put a crappy driver behind the wheel of a hundred thousand dollar sports car, would that make him a good driver!?

If you were to take a fumble fingered teenager a garage full of powered shop tools, would he, now be able to produce good cabinetry as good as a real craftsman with nothing but hand tools!?

For me, the advent of digital tools means that I can do the same work I did with brush on paper, much faster and more efficiantly than I used to!. But I still had to know how and WHERE to cut an paste with an exacto knife and rubber cement to do it properly with a couple of keyboard commands!.

One can easily take this point to the discussion about photograpy!. A skillful photographer, with nothing more than a 12 shot, disposable camera, can produce 12 good images!. This may not be possible for an untalented and unexperienced person with a TWO HUNDRED shots in a flash memory cardWww@QuestionHome@Com

no, I don't really think so!. In photography maybe (at least it definitely makes it easier)!. but drawing is more a skill in looking at what's actually there than a mechanical skill!.
You can have bad craftsmansship in digital art as well, you can be bad at communicating your idea and you can not have a concept!. Equally you can have or lack creativity!. Using digital media doesn't automatically make you an artistic genius, There is bad digital art as well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com