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They are selling a book of surface textures to scenic artists including an easy to use CD of the images in digital format.

Are you serious that this is like buying art? This really then feels like a TOTAL scam.

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It's not art meant for viewing pleasure, as far as I understand the intended use is rather as a reference work. I.e., the artist who uses the book should base their art on the photographs in the book (but of course without copying, unless they get a license to do so).

Then this is SUCH a scam.

I should base my art on the photos without copying. If it's just for me to look at and not copy, why the CD? I can look at the printed picture to base my art on that.

Here is the amazon blurb "ready to be used in your designs, presentations, or comps, as backgrounds or for general visual information"

What absolute garbage.

A good library of references is very much worth the price, even these days where you can find anything on the internet.

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