Nice one, post it up when it's done. I'm on the beers 'til Monday, but then I can get started!

I was thinking of a cityscape, so as long as rochr doesn't post in the same week I might just get away with it! ;)

Thanks for that link. These textures are so good I might have to due my first pure Bryce image for many months.

A good result then. Hope your family visiting went well, AS.

shadowdragonlord - well, there's only one fool in all this, and it isn't you or anyone here! This has happened several times recently, sometimes cleverly done and sometimes not so cleverly done (i.e. this one). I don't understand why the image hasn't been taken down however. The fact that it is still there after two days is giving off the wrong messages and will only encourage others to do the same thing.

I am wondering why the image is still there...

kimpe, I hear you about GFX! Quest - I informed Clay & Agent Smith, although I don't think AS has received my message yet.

kimpe - I don't put much faith in the Hot 20, but in this instance I don't think it's a real factor. People will take other people's work regardless of whether there's an "elite" area to be attained. Some people do like the Hot 20 and it's not right to see a person getting in there by false means, and I wouldn't like to see it removed simply because a small minority decide not to play fair.

The original artist is Garry Walton

Yes, it's a straight grab with a couple of minor changes, blatant copyright infringement with intent (as evidenced by the lack of mention in the credits). 95% of the image is a cut and paste, hence the small size of the picture. Normally I'd say who cares, this goes on all the time, but seeing the comments praising the quality of the artwork, and seeing it push ahead of a lot of great quality original Bryce works in the Hot 20, I thought I'd speak up. If it had just been a re-creation of the original then that (IMO) is fine, but it's not. There's been a huge discussion on Epilogue about this, and an entire site was forced to shut down a couple of weeks ago as a result, for using artists' works without permission (and they weren't even pretending the work was their own!) woodhurst - You were right when you recognised it as a pro-quality image, because it was done by a pro. But that pro just happened to be different from the poster! Thing is, we have to assume that what a person posts is genuine. Things are getting sad when we have to research someone's work before leaving a comment!

"Could you make it easier for us to delete our old images? Say put a check box next to each image when we view our gallery and you could check all that you want deleted, and hit a delete button at the bottom." I suggested this a while back, on the home page image list, because I wanted to clean out one of my galleries, but I think the idea got lost in the ether. Reducing image and thumb size limits would speed up the site, I reckon. For a start off, I vote we limit the size of all VIATWAS images to 10K.

"I invite you to visit the Bryce forum at 3D Commune. There's a sad fellow in his 40s there who is chronicling his recently diagnosed lung cancer." Sounds fun. I must get along to 3DC. I personally hate breathing in smoke from inconsiderate twats who think that just because they're killing themselves they can try to kill me too. But there's a world of difference between reality and a graphic of a some improbable lady with a cig between her jaggy lips. As has been mentioned, if you ban this then you'd ban 30% of stuff in the galleries, much of which represents deeds significantly more harmful than smoking.

A cigarette? Can't see that it's anything like the cornerstone of depravity that's being claimed. Now, if she'd been smoking it out of her p*ssy...

At last! Just a pity it comes at a time when I can only visit the site a couple of times a week. Better late than never, though ;) I don't mind paying for services - I pay at GFX and digitalart - but I won't be paying for this one simply because I'll never need to upload 3 images in a day. It's not an unreasonable request for those that want to, however. Despite what the people say, there aren't many quality sites where you get a similar service for free (e.g. digitalart you can wait weeks for your images to be approved unless you're Premium, Epilogue is difficult to get approved whether you donate or not, GFX you have to host your own images unless you pay, etc.) One image a day is plenty. That last person who told me he could do 3 quality images in a day was Legume, and look what happened to him...

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