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@samarawales I appreciate your response, but I don’t think you know where I might be coming from. I hope the following is received in good spirit. Photoshop 1.0 was a digitization of analog darkroom techniques. (I used to have my own stinky darkroom in a pantry, and I remember when this software came out.) It took what used to be a very organic relationship between humans, substrates, lighting, and chemistry, and ratcheted all that analog goodness into a concept that could fit inside a software package. Photoshop 1.0 was Adobe’s version of what shadows look like, what burning a photo looks like, what using a red filter looks like, and what blurring a photo looks like as software. These effects paled in comparison to what true analog photography processes could produce as a creative tool, but because digitization had implications for economic scale, it was funded more and more. If you remember, there were many arguments about whether something made in Photoshop could ever truly be considered art because it was software based. Over time we moved past that, as new generations born into the technology simply accepted it and ran with it. Great work, native digital work, began emerging as a result in my opinion. Sound familiar? My general wacky point is this: unless you are making images by growing your own berries and squishing colors out of them to make stories, you are being interpreted—at some point in your creative process—by a pre-trained filter, program, or computer function brought to you most likely by a large corporation and a development team that has released its version of what it thinks your ideas might look like digitally. You have been assisted by them and their dev team. The only real way you aren’t doing this is if you write your own software with your own creative biases baked in—which, interestingly, in my opinion, is completely possible with AI vibe coding if people take a look. To anyone reading my dumb comment - If you ever use computers to make things, then you have never been more powerful as a maker than you are now, but you have to lean into it. Anyway man, thanks for your considered response. Be well and keep shining.