"If you want to use it for Profitable goals contact me."
I've tried contacting people on DA before about using imagery in semi-commerical settings. It's cheaper to buy stock art than waste time chasing them unless it's a one-off image.
This exchange highlights the problem - http://comments.deviantart.com/1/76929399/904383280 - someone requests permission from the "artist" who assumes that as it's a texture that people are allowed to copy it:
"It was put up as a texture hopefully you know what a texture is and what it means. LOL!"
But just because it is a texture doesn't mean rights are automatically granted (though it is unlikely to be distinctive enough to warrant copyright protection only a court can really decide that).
If people used PD or CC-BY or other free to use licenses clearly then such problems wouldn't arise.
What I've noticed "Professional" software like Photoshop is that a vast quantity of copies are pirated. In corporate settings and among very successful practitioners, not so much, but among any other category of people I've met that use Photoshop/Final Cut/AutoCad/etc, a very large portion of the copies are pirated.
From that, I really wouldn't be surprised if they grabbed stuff such as these textures from Deviant Art without any regard to the rights. I've certainly seen it happen.
I suppose what I'm saying is that I'd be interested to see how many people among the users of Photoshop who aren't such kung-fu masters of it to have tons of their own such things worked out are going to pay for this stuff instead of looking for it on torrents.
Resolution and quality, I hope. Most of these textures are 1024px or larger, and they're seamless/tileable, which makes them useful for repeating backgrounds or 3D modeling.
Also, the royalty-free license. A lot of DeviantArt users require you to link to them, or don't allow commercial usage of their art.
http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/?qh=&sec...