gpowless wrote:
My experience is that while these kinds of things produce some time wasting pictures rarely do they contain enough depth to replace professionals.
As far as I am concerned there is no danger of our profession being replaced by software. Quite the contrary. Look what happened to graphic designers back in the nineties.
At first everyone seemed to think that desktop publishing would put all but a select few out of business as most people would do their own brochures and flyers and so on. But what happened is that people tried that, found out "hey this stuff is
hard
", and developed a new, deeper appreciation for the value of good graphics and the importance of hiring a professional. Since then the field has expanded dramatically. The Academy of Art College (now University) has gone from one modest building where they taught "applied arts" (ie graphic design) to gobbling up large areas of San Francisco real estate (and even adding a school of architecture).
Let's hope more people try to design their own projects and realize just how difficult it is to do well.
