My neighbor saw my digital mural and called it 'glorified Photoshop'

I was finalizing a digital mural commission in my backyard studio. My neighbor leaned over the fence, took one look, and called it 'glorified Photoshop' without any context. How do you handle dismissive attitudes towards digital art from people in your life?

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the_hugo2h ago

My uncle said my freelance animation was "just cartoons on a computer" after I spent three months on a two-minute short... it really stings when they reduce the craft to just the tool. I just started asking him really specific questions about traditional animation techniques until he admitted he had no idea how any of it worked.