Shii Posted:

I just wish people would even make a slight attempt to shop their images or make them different even slightly. Every one of the piercings save mine is untouched, straight from Google.

Quoting for relevance.

Here’s hoping there’s at least some entries for the Wikipedia print edition that aren’t one of the 2 images littering the first page of Google (you’ll know the ones if you’ve searched anything like “Wikipedia printed”, plenty of copies from that guy who -wait for it- printed Wikipedia). The printed book made from the German Wikipedia is also easily found, would at least be slightly different, but is actually not that good an image.

Viewmaster was pretty similar… the problem’s endemic in item ideas that are actually real things. The pictures are right there for the copying. Still, can’t criticise the Viewmaster ones too much, all I did was adjust the colours to make it look better and brighter and I won with that. Felt like I’d cheated a bit, but I’m not saying no to a win.

E: I suppose this isn’t a problem if you’re not concerned with the source of images, but it feels cheap to just directly copy something… like Shii said, at least make it a little different.