NO MORE pixelated real-life photos

[german038389]

i really dont like these kind of pictures to color cause its switching color for every pixes and there is not much of the same pixels together.
+ if the picture is big (like new solar farm 300x300), it takes lot of time and nerves

[Fragrant Flaaffy]

Ditto on this one please no more...they are frustrating and tedious rather than enjoyable~

[Ryuna]

Well, some of us like these big pictures. You aren't forced to do it in one sitting. Do some then come back and do more later. I'd be pretty disappointed if they stopped releasing these kinds of pictures. In fact I get more enjoyment out of completing these instead of the smaller ones.

[Arbutus]

I hate the big realistic ones. They are the reason I gave this game a negative review. Annoying to colour and no fun at all. Put them in their own pack or something. I'm stuck colouring them all when I want to get the achievements but I wish they were not included or at least had no achievements attached to them.

[german038389]

Originally posted by Ryuna:

Well, some of us like these big pictures. You aren't forced to do it in one sitting. Do some then come back and do more later. I'd be pretty disappointed if they stopped releasing these kinds of pictures. In fact I get more enjoyment out of completing these instead of the smaller ones.

i like big pictures, but only those that have chunks of color togetger or have some nice pattern, but its not joy to do realistic-ones (i dont do them in one sitting, cause that would be impossible, but i still dont like them)

[MaryBaby]

Please don't stop making the big photo-realistic pictures. I love them. It makes it worth having the game. There are really easy coloring games if you would rather do that. Why should this game just be easy to do and quickly over?

[MaryBaby]

I have a suggestion but don't know exactly how to get it out there. (I'm not a real savvy Steam user. What I do is put a block of pixels on my screen with the zoom big enough for my eyes to handle. Then I start with the lightest color that's in that block and just start swiping rows. The lighter color won't obscure the numbers. Then, because the pixels that are correct are set, you can go to the next lightest color and do it again. Keep doing this and you will get down to just a few dark colors in that block.

I don't always do this but it's better than changing colors every pixel.

[german038389]

in Vistas DLC every big picture was nice, with goal, purpose and nice to color :)

but sure, you can color them with locked completed pixels and bad colored not showing, that way its easier but still, changing color and then moving mouse like maniac on whole sector you selected is still not great, cause mostly there is only small number of same color in that sector.

and i dont like it, but i will complete every picture eventually

[Hudde Ver 8.14]

This goes to show that you can't please anyone. The complete opposite problem happened with the Emoji Pack, where people complained about the images being too small and cartoon-y. Now we have someone complaining about the images being too big and realistic. Don't get me wrong I also don't like the realistic ones either and would much rather have more smaller or have the pixels be bunched up rather than scattered all over the place, but I recognize that there are people that like the more realistic ones and I appreciate that as well.

[Tellah]

I don't really like the photo-realistic ones either (though the Snow Leopard from the Animal DLC isn't really all that bad) and prefer even like... big complicated ones that are still pixel-y...
...but really the image thus far that's been wearing on me is that darn Wreath from the Holiday DLC with barely any blocks of color.

[N]

Photorealistic ones are the worst and most frustrating to color. The pixels are a complete mess there. It's even worse when they have 40+ colors, and some of them are sliiiiightly different and the difference between them is almost undistinguishable to the human eye.

The absolute worst picture in the photorealistic category for me was Carina Nebula. Not only was it a complete pain to color, but the source image is an extremely poorly compressed JPEG photo image. You can see JPEG compression artifacts all over the image, it just hurts to even look at it.

But not all photorealistic images are that bad. For example, Playground or Doll were okay. Not too many colors and a good amount of chunks of colors.
But anyway most of these kind of images are really frustrating to color.

(However nothing is as abysmal as Berries and Pumpkins. Not photorealistic but it doesn't make them any better. And the Wreath takes the absolute first place in being the worst frustration provider in the entire game. Every single pixel was painful. It felt like unending purgatory. It almost made me quit the game. I don't know how you can call the game "relaxing" with pictures like the Wreath or Pumpkins in there. These pictures are hell.)

Sometimes Coloring Pixels feels like one of those troll games where you start by creating your cute chicken, play with it, give it treats and make it wear funny hats and then all of a sudden without you expecting it your cute chicken gets thrown into a grinder with blood everywhere and is being processed into meat.
You color beautiful pixel art and relax and the next picture is some Nebula.

About which pictures I like the absolute most -- those are pixel art pictures. Good beautiful interesting pixel art brings joy to my heart. The entire Community pack was simply woderful. Oh how I wish more pictures were this good. Doesn't matter if the pictures are small or big or huge - pixel art = happy. Community pack is the best, RPG pack was mostly very good, Space was good (minus the Nebula), Holidays was good (minus godawful Wreath), original books were very good (minus the Earth, another frustrating boring photorealistic mess with too much samey colors scattered all over the place), etc, etc.


tl;dr
+1 to "photorealistic pictures (and the ones like Berries, Pumpkins and Wreath) are mostly ruining the entire "relaxing" concept of the game for me"

[Lila]

I like them.

And well, you could just choose to do the simpler ones?

[Andullivan]

People here seem to be confusing photo-realistic with large. (The people in favour of them)

Don't stop doing large pictures. They're fun. but DO stop doing large ones that have colour groups thrown around everywhere, scattered. Like the Christmas Wreath, like the elephants, they're just annoying to do.


No one is saying we should be able to do them in one sitting, no one is saying stick to small pictures. We're saying, stop doing the pictures that are large and have no colours clumped together because they're just tedious and not relaxing to do.

[Fragrant Flaaffy]

N has put it into the best words~
I wanna +1 posts with a "LOOK AT THIS!!!" for those who seem to be getting mixed up here :P

[N]

I'd like to add something to what I've said earlier. I don't mind the photorealistic images as is. It's the implementation that ruins it.

Again, look at the Doll image. It's clearly a pixelated photo. But it only has 20 colors. And it still looks very good. And it's fun to color it.

You don't need 70 colors in a picture! Especially if most of them look exactly the same. That's why pictures like Pumpkins, Berries, Wreath, Earth and the like suck so much (well, Pumpkins and Berrieas are also repetitive pattern images and those are different boring category, but still). If the only way to differentiate the two colors is to use a Photoshop Eyedropper tool because they look too samey - you're doing something wrong.

Look at Pumpkins - it has 26 colors, but I bet you could use 8-10 and the image would be the same but the process of coloring the image wouldn't be so frustrating. 4-5 shapes of orange and 4-5 shapes of green would be enough. 26 shapes of two colors is just ridiculous. Same with Wreath - 80 colors?! Why? You don't need 50 shades of green for the image to look good.

Photorealistic images are fine, but if you have several shades of the same color that are too samey, then for the love of god please combine them into one color. You won't even tell the difference. The image will look just fine but it will be much more pleasant and relaxing to color.

[Ryuna]

Originally posted by Andullivan:

People here seem to be confusing photo-realistic with large. (The people in favour of them)

Don't stop doing large pictures. They're fun. but DO stop doing large ones that have colour groups thrown around everywhere, scattered. Like the Christmas Wreath, like the elephants, they're just annoying to do.


No one is saying we should be able to do them in one sitting, no one is saying stick to small pictures. We're saying, stop doing the pictures that are large and have no colours clumped together because they're just tedious and not relaxing to do.

Not true. I enjoy both large AND complex images like the photo realistic ones.