And the creativity of software?...Oh, God.... Bryce is the latter day Picasso....

When a monkey paints it's not art...it's because electric shock treatment prevented him from playing with his poo.

If that premise were true, yes. Since I've yet to be blessed by that experience, I'll maintain my view.

The software is not 'creative'. I didn't say it was. That is an attribute limited to a living intelligence... so far.

The software can be used creatively, or not. A tool is a tool. It needs to be used by a creative person who is trying to communicate in a non verbal manner.

I will also retain my view or opinion, as scoffed at as it is.

Philly, please let me tell you that I was not scoffing... I was trying to decrease the tension. I honor your opinion and even said:

I want nothing lost.... not in photography nor any other art. The arts are what make us human. Technology can help and expand that but never supplant it.

The software is awesome!  As one who cannot stage to save my life (I guess I am just too grounded in the hard sciences), it will be a boon.  Or not.  I still would not be able to stage the stuff in the software!

I know a great shoot when I see one.  I just cannot stage it!  But it would be fun to tinker with it.

Nothing that proggy does hasn't been done by competent architects.  Often it's that thing refered to as "artist's impression' or in other words the manual inclusion of an as yet unbuilt structure within a photograph of its surroundings.

I've done them...I've had to do them... 'reverse engineering' an image's perspective and light-source so my design proposal can be inserted.

Planners at Council kinda like them.  One wonders, though, whether they actually know how to prove the mathematics of Perspective...or that I may be getting away with things by having a lend of reality....