Now if the person has said..I used some software to manipulate a royalty free image what do you think? I think that is legal...its all about full disclosure. I am a product creator and I make all of my own images for my products..I use royalty free images and I do manipulate them with various graphic software programs.
It's not about being "illegal". It's about being honest. When someone says they drew it, that involves a LOT more effort than clicking two filters in photoshop for example. He is, in a sense, trying to cheat curators by implying he did a lot more work than he actually did.
If he said, I took this photo, modified it to look like like that digitally, and I present it to you, that'd be far more honest.
Yeah, it's just a photo and a filter. It literally takes 2 minutes to adjust the filter and brightness and say it is a "drawing".
Now if the person has said..I used some software to manipulate a royalty free image what do you think? I think that is legal...its all about full disclosure. I am a product creator and I make all of my own images for my products..I use royalty free images and I do manipulate them with various graphic software programs.
It's not about being "illegal". It's about being honest. When someone says they drew it, that involves a LOT more effort than clicking two filters in photoshop for example. He is, in a sense, trying to cheat curators by implying he did a lot more work than he actually did.
If he said, I took this photo, modified it to look like like that digitally, and I present it to you, that'd be far more honest.