Hello John, it's a discussion forum, you are free to suggest and discuss. I could just as easily colour each band on the model before producing the image, it's just not really worth the hassle as for the multi item listings i then have tens of images for one listing which probably puts me over the image limit and it takes a very long time. It's not just the time to produce the images but the time to manage the listings. It's like a design job at work, I can spend more time doing the paperwork than the model.
of course i have used the same incorrect image for the 1% values I mostly stock as they should be 5 band with a brown tolerance band but they have the same 1K 5% image, probably the most manufactured and sold value.
When it comes to surface mount models they have the added benefor that I could use them in Diptrace as I do export my boards to 3D cad where they fit into the mechanical assembly, so nice models that are correct and have rounds are better than the models diptace carries as standard that were made in wings 3d which does not support curves.