Quote - I think that product previews should have descriptive text anyways.

"Postwork used."
"Custom lighting set."
"Poses may differ from preview image."
It'd save me a lot of time deciding what to get.

While I agree, it also asks the question of "what is a custom light"? I use a specific lightset on almost all my "candlelit, indoor" images, it's the Albany Night HDRI light that comes with Poser 7. So it's in a way a standard light set, just not the one Poser loads with. And no one in their right mind would use Poser's default lights for a promo image (at least I doubt it)

I usually label my promo pictures with "serving suggestion" - partly for the fun of it and partly because.. well.. not everything on the picture is likely to be included. When I buy a pack of noodle soup I don't excpet real giant prawns and fresh vegetables and such to be included either - even if it's on the picture ;)

I do not think that heavy postwork has anything to do on a promotional picture though. It's decieving and the customers may buy what they think is (for instance) a flawless "model-powdered" texture, only to find out that the flawlessness was all Photoshopped.

Of course a merchant will strive to make his or her product look the best possible, some have specialized artists to make their renders (I know my own promos usually suck) - and I see no harm in that, as long as it is stated that the image is postworked. For my own promos I try to have both "no postwork" pictures of the product, and one where I show the potential of the thing in question. As long as people are aware that "the product will not look like this when loaded in a default Poser with the default render settings" - it's nothing different from any frozen pizza. What you see is not what you get - but what you may make it into with a little extra ;)

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