How is the discipline of photography impacted digital graphic design?

Graphic design and photography do go hand-in-hand. Composition, layout, and color are all principles that apply to both fields, yet applied through different mediums.

I think photography compliments graphic design and when combined has a greater visual impact!

It is obvious that photography had an absolute impact on graphic design in last few decades... unfortunately, it is misused often just to fill empty spaces or to make a sensation of something with no value argument manipulating with people through visual magic and emotion. We are witnesses how photograph can sell a bad product and opposite...so yes, Photography has an absolute impacts not just on Graphic design but all media in general.

Design within a shot is an Art for it self and deserves different, more mature and academic approach.

Photography has become a basestone in digital graphic design since editing softwares came to light. Before back in the 50´s and then until latest 60´s Collages took the lead. Nowadays photoshop and digital cameras has take the photography into a digital work as resource in advertising, real sate, web, viral media. Photography has change the graphic design concepts since exist, starting with old movies posters, advertising indrugstores, magazines. If you want to know the real impact of photography in graphic design and i go farder in actual days, just imagine the world without photography, long time making paintings and cerygraphy for everything that need and image.

The photography can be a basis to a general graphic design, it brings a powerful tool to mold it after that, to suit the demands of the client, it can be, the main graphic image on which the designer is gonna typo, so, yes, it impacts a lot the design, and can replace easily the drawing in that case .

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