OMG Yeah!
You're so right! Graphic designers are the same - all they do is buy photoshop and a fancy laptop which does all of their work for them.

And builders. All they do is buy boots and bricks... and the house practically builds itself.
(perfectrhys come find me on PS3., Fri 28 May 2010, 13:47, 1 reply)

Haha
The first bit actually is a commonish misconception, unfortunately. Some people seem outraged by being charged so much for a piece of graphic design, because they think the computer does it all.
( Bob Todd whee, Fri 28 May 2010, 13:49, closed)

Indeed...
Much like this terrible article.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6968036.ece

The Tory MP Greg Hands said: “Surely adding two digits doesn’t need to be outsourced at all. Civil servants can do this themselves. Modern graphic design packages surely allow anyone with an average brain to design something as good as, or better than, what we see in front of us here.”
(perfectrhys come find me on PS3., Fri 28 May 2010, 13:52, closed)

Now if it had been the Olympic 2012 logo, he may have had a point.
I best most b3tans could have farted a better logo than that. It's one of those things that appeals only to other designers.
( Bob Todd whee, Fri 28 May 2010, 14:00, closed)