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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6841498" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>I've not made purchase of the product in question, so I've only got the preview to base my statements on. As such, I won't be addressing any of the game stuff of the product.</p><p></p><p>However, I will give you my honest opinion as a graphic designer and reader of gaming materials:</p><p></p><p>You've got what appears to be six different page backgrounds in the preview alone, that's extremely busy for a 17 page document. The differing page looks might add something to a larger book where each look can be used to mark a particular chapter, but when the look changes so frequently it detracts from the appearance of quality - what should look very well done, as each page background is individually well put-together, instead looks like a chaotic mess.</p><p></p><p>Further, some of those backgrounds actually make reading the text over them more difficult - in fact, it actually seems to be that only the background used on page 10 doesn't interfere with the readability of some portion of text.</p><p></p><p>And last, the art; excellent selections, but the hard contrast of each art piece's edges and the page backgrounds compounds the busy look and makes the product look less well put-together. Changing the page backgrounds to something more subtle (like page the 10 background) might be all that is needed to smooth out the issue, though I'd probably soften the edges of the art with some transparency if it were me assembling the book. I'd also roughly double the distance between any text and any art from what you have in the layout now, but that is just my preference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6841498, member: 6701872"] I've not made purchase of the product in question, so I've only got the preview to base my statements on. As such, I won't be addressing any of the game stuff of the product. However, I will give you my honest opinion as a graphic designer and reader of gaming materials: You've got what appears to be six different page backgrounds in the preview alone, that's extremely busy for a 17 page document. The differing page looks might add something to a larger book where each look can be used to mark a particular chapter, but when the look changes so frequently it detracts from the appearance of quality - what should look very well done, as each page background is individually well put-together, instead looks like a chaotic mess. Further, some of those backgrounds actually make reading the text over them more difficult - in fact, it actually seems to be that only the background used on page 10 doesn't interfere with the readability of some portion of text. And last, the art; excellent selections, but the hard contrast of each art piece's edges and the page backgrounds compounds the busy look and makes the product look less well put-together. Changing the page backgrounds to something more subtle (like page the 10 background) might be all that is needed to smooth out the issue, though I'd probably soften the edges of the art with some transparency if it were me assembling the book. I'd also roughly double the distance between any text and any art from what you have in the layout now, but that is just my preference. [/QUOTE]
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