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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1797281" data-attributes="member: 2238">Know what?I don't think the art is impressionistic.  I think we are simply looking at a picture that is a lot smaller than the size of a bookcover.  Here is why:View the pic in the first screen.  If you are looking at it in IE, let it autoshrink to fit the frame, then get away from the screen, get as far back as you can.  I noticed that the further away from the picture I was the better (and clearer) it looked.  I think WotC found a neat picture and contracted for it and it turned out the pic was a lot smaller than what they thought it would be.  Then to cover up the fact that when blown up you can see the brush strokes, they added some fog effect.  My reason for suggesting the fog effect?  Look at the bottom of the pic- there is a "not foggy" line.  Everything in that line looks a lot clearer.  Look at the hands of the lich guy, they look a lot clearer.  I have noticed this effect on magic cards whose art was blown up poster size.  When it was on a card it looked great, however poster sized it looked really bad. Perhaps we are dealing with art intended for a magic card, which I know is not that big and designed for low resolution.  Ussually. Aaron.</blockquote>