There is a theory rather convincing that some of the old masters used optics to cast the image onto the canvas and then they actually traced over that image. Cheating...or a masterful use of the technology of the time? Computers are simply an extension of the mind and the hand. Some people (like me) produce nothing more than jigsaw images (placing a figure here with a background there and details here and there) and other actually manage to produce something that is amazing. It isn't the tools that create the magic. It's the imagination and creativity of a true artist. I'm not of the "everyone is an artist" school...clearly some people have talent and others don't. But it is possible for someone to create art with a computer--I've no doubt of that. And it is equally possible for someone to produce garbage with oils (just let me at a canvas and I can prove that in a nano second). And the other hand, I think a great many people post a lack of effort in the galleries, which only proves the anti-Poser viewpoint.