This is an illustrative example:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/15162691
http://www.paintmap.com/?item=1408
In my opinion, this is placing Paintmap’s “Digital Art” cathegory in a difficult position and makes necessary to take some decissions about what is acceptable and what is not in Paintmap, independently of the scope and potentials of the so called Digital Art as well as its consideration in the artistic forums existing in the web (for example, WetCanvas or NellArteforum).
A possibility would be to restrict Paintmap’s concept of Digital Art to that using traditional techniques such as virtual brushes on virtual canvas without the aid of filters, effects, cloneing, painting over or plugins (this is the content of the “Painters Alley”, Digital Art subforum in WetCanvas).
A wider concept would include the potentials of image processing and a quick tour through the WetCanvas Digital Art forum will show you the diversity of software options (Corel, Gimp, Twisted brush, Dog Waffle, Art Rage) displayed by digital artists. Photoshop is considered a software mainly used for photo retouching and contributions using this software are very scarce.
In my opinion, to help discriminating CREATIVE digital work from what it is not, Paintmap's administrators should request to digital artists a short description of the digital method employed. In this context I would suggest the rejection by Paintmap of simply Photoshop processed photographs.
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I would hope to see that digital photography and artwork created with computers be in a totally different category and website. What I found so intriguing about Paintmap was that it was other painters and their interpretation of what they saw using their paints and brushes. I can use photoshop also and create some very nice artwork with it, but in no way would I ever consider them paintings. There are many good websites to post photo and digital work. Please leave paintmap as what makes it unique- Paint! This is not really a grey area, let digital/photos be in a class by themselves. C. Carrillo
I Agree with Cindy Carrillo and I'm against posting a photo manipulations here on Paintmap. Everyone could make the same photo-art even without a deep knowledge of Photoshop by using just a few or one (which is the case with this author) artistic filters presented in Photoshop or ACD see plugins...
Art suppose to be unique at first place?!
Without being art critics or having them at the Paintmap Team, perhaps common sense would be the best way to decide what is and what is not an appropriate contribution to this site according its goals. However, the opinion of Paintmap community members is fundamental to help us to maintain the spirit of the site. So, thanks Cindy and Kiril for your comments; we hope to collect more opinions before taking a decission about the matter.
I think people from Bulgaria can say wish they these pictures on the map theirs country or not. http://bg.netlog.com/groups/paintmapbg__________________
I think if somebody paint picture from this position, i can remоve mine=
Help. I'm registered with Paintmap btu can't find my password. Requests for a password reminder produce numbers which are not acceptable by paintmap login.
Hi, Harrybell.
We are working on it, we will send you more information about the password recovery system as soon as we have fixed it.
Thanks,
Paintmap team.
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