Sims 2 Scrapbooking Contest

leah10006 15 (44/60)

(-3) High quality photo (not blurry or crunchy)
A: Still having compression issues! That’s really too bad. B: The photos and background elements are quite blurry in places. C: Your photos are very crunchy, as is the rest of your scrapbook.

(-2) Interesting Photos
A: Some of the photos are cool, but I don’t really understand the one with the two people standing in front of the two people sitting. C: A bit more variety in your photos would be good - there are a lot of posed group shots, which are fine in themselves, and very appropriate for a graduation, but a few more spontaneous-looking photos would add a bit of excitement.

(-2) Good Photo Cropping
A: The picture of the two graduates is stretched, making your sims look fatter and mis-proportioned. B; Some of the photos are quite obviously squashed.

(-2) Realistic Drop Shadows / Consistent Light Source
B: While there are some drop shadows that are at a nice height, others seem to be absent. On the second page, the far left photo should be affected by the page shadow. C: You have a handful of drop shadows, and those shadows look good - the size and opacity of them is realistic, so that's great. They are quite inconsistent though - only a few elements have drop shadows, and most of the photos are missing them.

(-1) Believable Layering/Dimension of Elements
A: Whoops! Your binding shadow is below one of your photos, it makes it look like that photo os hovering above the rest of the page. I’m also not seeing very prominent drop shadows on the rest of the elements; it’s hard to tell they are there.

(-2) Nice Fonts (not Comic Sans or Papyrus)
A: The font you’ve used isn’t a handwritten one, making it look like it would have been printed, but the page is far too large to be able to go through one, so it makes me wonder how it got on the page. C: The main (white) font looks an awful lot like Times New Roman (it may not actually be TNR, but if not it is a very similar font), which isn't particularly aesthetically pleasing, and the bold doesn't really make it look nicer, and does make it a little harder to read.

(-2) Good Use of Text
A: There are a few grammar errors in your block of text, and some things that shouldn’t be capitalized are. C: Your page heading bits are really nice, but the journaling on p2 doesn't look as good - journaling really does look better on cards, or done in handwriting font, as otherwise it would have to be printed onto the background paper, which is unlikely. The alignment also looks a bit slapdash - justified paragraphs would look better if the text is intended to be printed

(-1) Good Mix/Balance of Images and Other Elements
C: Page 1 looks good. Page 2 has a nice number of photos and other elements, but your photos are all very crowded together in the middle, and the overlap is obscuring large parts of the pics. If you'd grouped them a little more loosely, so that the overlap didn't cover up so much of the photos, the page would have looked a bit better-balanced, and the photos would be showcased better.

(-1) Fits and Portrays each Life Event well
C: There's a big focus on your graduates' family, which is great, but the rest of the ceremony, the other students etc. all seem to be missing.

General Comments:
A: I love how textural all your papers always look. You do a good job of combining them in a pleasing way. B: Nice work with the collage effect on the background, it adds good interest without being distracting. C: We got binding and page shadows, yay! This is a very stylish layout - patterned backgrounds are the 'easy way out', but you've used a combination of different plain backgrounds to great effect - the way they're arranged is eye-catching and interesting, which takes skill to achieve.

In fact, that's been your hallmark throughout the contest - although you've struggled with some of the technical elements, your actual page layouts have been creative, clean and stylish. I'm very impressed.

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