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When desktop publishing became a thing back in the 1990s anyone could put a book together. Fancy typesetting, high-dpm printing, kerning, text wrapping, heck it
by bregma 6y ago
When desktop publishing became a thing back in the 1990s anyone could put a book together. Fancy typesetting, high-dpm printing, kerning, text wrapping, heck it looked great.
You still had to be able to write to create good content. That never changed.
Now anyone can squeeze out polished crap at the touch of a button because the technology makes it simple to produce something that appears sort of like something that used to take experts a lot of work. It still takes experts a lot of work to produce something of quality. The rest of us just produce a lot.
- RichardCA 6y agoThe idea that a certain type of photography is only used by the low, artless, amateur crowd that has no taste has existed throughout the entire history of photography. You can start around 18 minutes in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWoqdJ6rIoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWoqdJ6rIoo