Oh, this is one of my pet peeves. Precious few of the textures I've bought over the years are useable out-of-the-box.

Sometimes it's simply that the colour is wrong: too blue, too red, too yellow, strange purplish tones... it's not as if there's a shortage of images on the 'net that could be used for reference, if you know what I mean.

It's the burned-in shadows and highlights that really grind my gears. Most of the time these are fixable using various Photoshop techniques, but occasionally it's so bad that the textures are unusable. I'm trying to rescue a particular texture at the moment where the knees and elbows are the sort of dark purple you'd normally associate with the skins of aubergines (egg plants to you folks over the pond).

And what's with all the dirty bottoms? I know the sun doesn't shine there so reference photos will have a shadow, but including that in the texture maps is a bad - no, make that a terrible - idea.

Now that Poser has IDL and SSS, skin textures should show natural variations in tone, spots, freckles, blemishes and so on. But burned-in shadows and highlights are a no-no. Assuming I have the attention of any vendors, why are so few of you adept at making bump and specular maps? Making grayscale versions of the colour maps just won't do: it will make me think that you're both lazy and incompetent, and I probably won't buy your stuff again.

Maybe it should be mandatory to show thumbnails of texture, bump and other maps in the market place so we can make informed purchasing decisions.

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