Hard to say... I find myself using handpainted textures more often than photo-based ones... (Shari by Eowyn, is a staple... THANKS Eowyn!). It may be my luck, but I find that I have to mess with lighting a lot with photobased textures to get them to look just right, sometimes they look splotchy, and I get frustrated and either give up, or switch to something else... but then I've seen INCREDIBLE work dones with photorealistic textures... so again, hard to say... YAY I was so NOT helpful... ;)