The Ribblr community is full of so many incredible artists who dedicated so much of their time to provide such inspiration patterns. But sometimes I feel as if people may purchase a pattern due to graphic design and lighting, but may not be as inclined to if someone doesn’t have those graphic design or photography skills. The pattern image doesn’t determine whether a pattern is good or not. A pattern with a “high quality “ image may be harder to use than an image taken on someone’s duvet cover in non-ideal lighting. Young designers especially suffer from this, including myself, as I’m a young designer who does this as a creative outlet. What you may not know is how special a sale is to us smaller, younger businesses. Whenever I look at my shop info, I pray someone may have purchased one of my patterns, and when there is, it lights up my face and makes my day. Thank you. Froggy xx
Yes but this is generally because good lighting and angles make an item look better.
So if a pattern shows a high quality photo of bee for instance, and another shows a low quality photo of a bee, people will like the first one better because it just looks better and they think automatically that the end results will look the same as the photo and so they get the one with the better photos. But yes we need to normalise not judging a pattern by it’s photo!
I would like to admit that I usually pick higher quality photos, whether Theyre big shops or not. I just become afraid that I’ll use one of my few patterns a day on something illegible.
on the flip side, I will sometimes gravitate towards those patterns, and, after checking the journals to see the reviews and if it’s been tested (make journals folks!!), I’ll make it.
Honestly, I don’t know where I stand on this subject 
Thanks for bringing this up! I agree that a lot of people buy from designers that have professional-looking cover pictures. I try to look at more than that (journals are amazing, but please leave more than what hook and yarn you used!), but if it’s obvious they put 0 effort into getting a good picture, I wonder how much effort they actually put into making the pattern understandable (ex. Pictures where the plush is just lying on a messy bed with a dirty background or where they took it so quickly part of the final product got cropped out. I don’t mind if it doesn’t have perfect lighting or those outlines that some designers use)
i agree with @CrochetKiwiFruit ! i never really mind this, as long as i can see the item clearly enough!