They may photograph or avail themselves of photographic elements they use as a starting point for their paintings or illustrations. The resulting film images are often inserted into portfolios, used as marketing or advertising tools for the artist, or supplied to color-separators. All the different mediums of art can be defined by the processes and tools used to create the finished piece of artistic expression. Photographers primarily interact with cameras, lenses, chemistry and film. If you're interacting primarily with a computer to bring forth your art, you're not a photographer.
Process does determine the art form.
They were mistaken. Those photomontage images were produced through the photographer's interaction with the pure photographic process. Re-Touching and Collages Not included in cybergraphics is the simple retouching of photographs. Retouching is an accepted form of traditional image-enhancement and has been since the inception of the photographic medium. How much retouching is acceptable is still open to debate.