Photomanips are the way to go, tags died out a while ago but that hasn't gotten to PC... Well, it has actually, the better artists in the section aren't doing them so much anymore. The way I look at it is, graphics is taking on a new wave or fad and that's stuff like my sig, I visit a lot of graphic communities and very few still do render tags and stuff. Thing is, this is a much harder style to grasp. People used to be able to do tags because they have so many resources but photomanipulation tags, are really quite hard. It's a mix between LP's and tags. Tags are just becoming small LP's and the render tags are falling away. Icons are still icons.
But really, renders are well and truly dying.