FutureFantasyDesign opened this issue on Jan 14, 2009 · 69 posts
Lucie posted Thu, 15 January 2009 at 10:56 AM
We're not really talking about photoshop rules per say, it would be more like rules for stuff that can be used in photoshop (or paintshoppro, gimp etc for that matter) and of course copyright laws. And it's pretty much the same as the rules for using stuff in Poser which are respect the terms of whoever offer resources for those programs (those can be brushes, photos, illustrations etc...), and if you want to use images that belong to someone else, always ask permission. If you don't know who the original author is, don't use it, if you ask the author and he doesn't reply to your request, take it as a no... It's simple really... ;)
How do you ask without seeming plain rude? Well I personally wouldn't ask the person who made the photomanipulation... If you suspect permission wasn't given to use certain images, the best thing to do is to contact the author of those images that have been used, these authors will know if if they gave permission and let them handle it. And if they didn't give permission and don't do anything about it, well... It's their work that is being abused and you've done your best to help...