Be Olivo Barbieri for a day

Or Miklos Gaal. Take your pick, the suddenly ubiquitous miniature-like style is now available to the masses through a simple Photoshop tutorial. And there's a matching Flickr pool with tutorial examples of varying quality.

More than anything, I think this highlights the weakness of the technique in its original form. A few questions come to mind: does this impact the value of the work in the art market at all? Do photographer's who heavily rely on technique for their personal style risk "commoditization" through Photoshop mimickery?