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Dear puzzle makers,
I intensely dislike jigsaw puzzles that are made out of composed photo-manipulated pictures. One in particular (Buffalo Games' Country Life Sunset at the Farm) is causing me much annoyance and it's ruining the fun I get out of these puzzles.
Sure, the picture is pretty from a distance. But jigsaw puzzles are made specifically to have you squinting at the tiny pieces of each picture. Which means all the enjoyment I normally get out of a jigsaw puzzle (the details!) are all gone when I am scrutinizing every tiny little flaw.
Photo-manipulations are glaringly obvious in the way that barn doesn't sit quite right on the meadow and the edges are all colored wrong. (That yellow and gray makes me cringe!) That truck and those leaves don't quite sit right and the transition when you are peering at it... UGH. Or the not-rightness of that tree trunk. Or that fake lens flare. Or those two goddamned ducks side by side that are EXACTLY THE SAME.
Or how about the way that the backgrounds are so pixelated that you end up having a pile of pixel pieces at the end and you have to go by whether or not the piece is the right size to fit? It's one thing when you have pieces you can't identify until you slot it in and go "oh, so that's where you went!" It's quite another to have this mess of leaves and that mess of leaves be a huge mess you can't figure out. Especially when your puzzle pieces are uniform-ish.
I'm not trying to do the World's Hardest Puzzle or an Impuzzible. I want to put together a pretty picture that I like looking at. But every time I see that horrible gray-white edge of the barn against the yellow of the meadow it's on, I die a little inside.
I want a refund, damn it.
I intensely dislike jigsaw puzzles that are made out of composed photo-manipulated pictures. One in particular (Buffalo Games' Country Life Sunset at the Farm) is causing me much annoyance and it's ruining the fun I get out of these puzzles.
Sure, the picture is pretty from a distance. But jigsaw puzzles are made specifically to have you squinting at the tiny pieces of each picture. Which means all the enjoyment I normally get out of a jigsaw puzzle (the details!) are all gone when I am scrutinizing every tiny little flaw.
Photo-manipulations are glaringly obvious in the way that barn doesn't sit quite right on the meadow and the edges are all colored wrong. (That yellow and gray makes me cringe!) That truck and those leaves don't quite sit right and the transition when you are peering at it... UGH. Or the not-rightness of that tree trunk. Or that fake lens flare. Or those two goddamned ducks side by side that are EXACTLY THE SAME.
Or how about the way that the backgrounds are so pixelated that you end up having a pile of pixel pieces at the end and you have to go by whether or not the piece is the right size to fit? It's one thing when you have pieces you can't identify until you slot it in and go "oh, so that's where you went!" It's quite another to have this mess of leaves and that mess of leaves be a huge mess you can't figure out. Especially when your puzzle pieces are uniform-ish.
I'm not trying to do the World's Hardest Puzzle or an Impuzzible. I want to put together a pretty picture that I like looking at. But every time I see that horrible gray-white edge of the barn against the yellow of the meadow it's on, I die a little inside.
I want a refund, damn it.
