Digital paintings

I wouldn't be able to say much about painting, but I do know about photography.
When it comes to professional photography or photographic art only half of the work is capturing the picture the rest of the half is in printing that on paper. You can do so much to the print in the dark room that it may not look anything like what was captured. Now when people digitally alter pictures they are just doing what a photographer may have done in the dark room. The tools do not define the art. It is the artist that uses the tools to bring out what he has in his mind.
So the same would apply to paintings - an artist uses a canvas and paint he may as well use a digital canvas and digital pain, unless he has talent or an idea to bring out the tools are not going to create the art automatically.

Hi arlerambabu!
I think it's not the point. It's not the program that makes the art, it's the person. The software is just a way to put the ideas of the artist in practice. Of course with a little effort the person can do something, cause we all have some criativity and way to express, but imagine, if you catch someone on the street and put in a fabric and give her all the tools to manage it, even having everything she won't do it properly, cause don't have experience or talent for this. So it's not the tool, it's the person that does everything! And I do think that digital paintings are art.