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[Shadow_prophet 91]

Elaclairee - very, very, very foggy is right. i can barely see any details of your city. 6/10 Lighten up on the greyscale.

[tomdapom 79]

Wayyyy too foggy, heck, I can barely see the city , but from what I can see, the city looks quite good; maybe post a non-foggy shot? - 4.5/10

BTW, watch the comments, some people may find that offensive...

[Elaclairee 0]

Clearly neither of you have seen real dense fog at night, thats what you'd see. Lights, large outlines, water that melds into land, roads that look like ice, a very surreal and cold look. But eh, I can't change your mind now can I?

Also, the only feelings I had any posibility of hurting were Deever's, and even at that it was playful critisiczm. He does a lot of great work, and I just thought I'd say flat out, that that was not close to a good one, something I'd expect from someone far below his skill level. Either way, your perception, your opinions.

Hrm... there. You can barely notice the difference though, sharpened it up to make it a bit less blurry. Can't give an origonal though, never saved it.

[Shadow_prophet 91]

Originally posted by: Elaclairee Clearly neither of you have seen real dense fog at night, thats what you'd see. Lights, large outlines, water that melds into land, roads that look like ice, a very surreal and cold look. But eh, I can't change your mind now can I?

Hrm... there. You can barely notice the difference though, sharpened it up to make it a bit less blurry. Can't give an origonal though, never saved it. quote>

True but correct me if i am wrong, was your intention  to showcase your city in a dense fog or were you showcasing the fog? XD

I like it a little better since i can see a little clearly. 8.5/10 Try using vivid light under your brush tool to bring out the lighting.

[Elaclairee 0]

I'm shelling out $400 for pc upgrades, fancy $100 photo editing programs that take weeks to figure out never interested me. Photofiltre is what I got, little more than a fancy MS Paint with some little color effect things. I just put that to greyscale, messed with the contrast, and droped the brightness about, then sharpened it of course.

Hmmm... I just fixed a problem I had. All the colors were wacked in my games, couldn't figure it out. It was my moniter. Now that its fixed, I realize the editing was really shoddy, I'll try again tommorow, really came out bad.

Chew on this old one until then.

[Shadow_prophet 91]

$100 for a photoediting program eh ?..well i didn't really feel the pinch of the price (seeing that i don't know the original price) since i got the...umm....how to put this lightly ... the cracked copy which costed me around RM 10 (divide 10 by 3.75 to change into USD$...i think). And it doesn't take weeks to learn since most people learn from experience...which depends on the frequency you use th program.

Anyways this pic gets a 9/10. You lose 0.9 points just for the pause mode yellow outline.

[dosomthin90210 0]

Elaclairee-6/10-i love the lights but maybe a little over board on photoshop?

Elaclairee, again-9/10-i love it, very euro! just could you tell me where you go those apartment blocks? thanks!

heres mine, 100% maxis free (i might do a cjif poeple like it):

(also pardon the zoning)

[The Almighty Cheese Grater 0]

^ very nice! i didn't even see the zoning, i had to look for them for a few seconds looks like there is radiation in your city though, it's still very nice 8/10

[Elaclairee 0]

I see Maxis. Big Ben, Smithsonian Institute, and the 3x3 plaza.

Buildings came from god page 7. http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/somy000/

dosomthin- very very nice, could've benefited from switching to narrow canals at parts, just to make it feel a bit more close and urban 9/10

[CarmineHilton 6]

Guess I gotta start rating too!

masochist: 8/10 - Nice picture, but a little bit too red...

TheSixCents: 10/10 - I really like that picture! Perfect

C0ckatoo-210893: 8/10 - Very nice, but it's the same area over and over again.

Deever: 7.5/10 - Good start to something new, vertical mosaics!

tomdapom: 8/10 - That looks like a huge storm.. I can barely see the city

Elaclairee (2): 8.8/10 - It looks kinda nice for an R$ area!

dosomthin90210: 8.5/10 - Could I suggest to use the new canals? They're over @ SC4 Devotion....

And here's mine, just some downtown close-up!!

[gabry85 2]

OMG! I like this one. 10/10

Do you have a non-photoshopped image perchance?

[CarmineHilton 6]

gabry85: No, I deleted that one

[Amerikaner 42]

Heres a little something from Tbilisi...

Masochist- i like it but its too red and the maxis seems to just downgrade it...but ill give it an 8.6-10

TheSixcents- i like this one...9.2-10

C0ckatoo-210893- that is amazing i love it so much 10-10

ryan04- thats looking nice my friend 8-10 for the first and 7-10 for the second

Deever- thats looking pretty neat my friend 8-10 im just not a fan of the Windmills like that

Tomdapom-thats looking really cool 9-10

Elaclairee- hmmm not really sure what to think lol...your right it does look like there is color...lets say a 8-10

your other one i LOVE (except for that pause bar lol) 9-10

Dosomethin90210- thats looking pretty cool but that CBD is a little too close to the outskirts...might want some more info on that but ill give it a 8.0-10 

CarmineHilton-thats looking pretty cool my friend 9-10

[Elaclairee 0]

page flipie doodle

[dosomthin90210 0]

well almost 100 % no maxis

and carmie, i really dont like those new canals, they look to not-urban :/

carmie rating-7/100-too much photoshop for me, i would love it without it though lol

americaner-love the german look and especially that avenue! 10/10

heres another one of mine from a different city :

[villagemayor 0]

Amerikaner, That is an amazing City hall. Also like the columnar statues next to the avenues. 9/10

dosomthin90210, I love the canal and the cobblestone pedestrian malls! Beautiful!! 9/10

[villagemayor 0]

Elaclairee, nice social housing. Nicely detailed 8.5/10

dosomthin90210, like the small skyscraper surrounded by water. Nicely done.Nice mix of commercial and low rise buildings. Not cluttered. 8/10

CarmineHilton, wow, looks like someone took a night pic of d/t in a gittery helicopter, or the photographer was REALLY drunk or REALLY cold. Nice effect 7.5/10

[Weihnachtsmann 0]

9/10

here comes mine...

[ryan04 3]

Here is a shot from Sacchi...

[villagemayor 0]

Weihnachtsmann, nice sea walls. Never been able to build them. Envy you. 10/10

ryan04, nice european look 8.5/10

[Elaclairee 0]

Amerikaner- nice, but the trees around that monument are a bit too much 8.5/10

dosomthin- very good layout, nice choice of buildings. when do i move in? 9/10

Weihnachtsmann- very cool teraforming, but the maxis buildings sorta hurt it 8.5/10

ryan04- odd angle, the palm hotel in the forground isn't very well placed either 7.5/10

[SpecialEddie 3]

Amerikaner: 8/10. Very nice. However, I'm confused--are you going for the London or Frankfurt feel?

dosomthin90210: 8.5/10. Excellent focus on that Rembrandt Theater, though it also gives us a glimpse of your excellent city-building. 

Weihnachtsmann: 7/10. Interesting transportation layout. 

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Excuse the text at the upper left hand side. It's from my CJ.

[Cockatoo 2,256]

ryan04: Very nice olympic area! Looks realistic. 8.5/10

Deever: Nice photo effects but those walls coming off the wind power plants look a little out of place and so do the roads. 7/10

tomdapom: Looks like a fantastic city under all that rain. A little too much for me though. 7.5/10

shadow_prophet: The same as you're last image. 6.5/10

Elaclairee: Sorry but I think you killed this image with the greyness. Looks like a cool city though. 5/10

Elaclairee: This one's much better! Nice BAT's with some cool effects. 9/10

dosomthin90210: Looks like a great city! I can see about 10 Maxis building though, big ben, 3X3 park, industrial ect. 8.5/10

CarmineHilton: Fantastic photoshoping skills but how do I even know what that is? Is it even Sim City? 3/10

Amerikaner: Great picture! Very realistic 9.5/10

dosomthin90210: Wow, this picture took my breath away! 9.5/10

Weihnachtsmann: Cool rail system. 7/10

ryan04: Nice image but that's kinda easy to make up. 6.5/10

SpecialEddie: That's really one of the best downtown's I've seen in ages! 10/10

[villagemayor 0]

SpecialEddie, love the downtown, especially the sunken highway. Stunning architecture. 11/10

[Weihnachtsmann 0]

very nice skyscraper view SpecialEddie! i like your style how you build sunken highways through the downtown 10/10

[SimsPlanet2 7]

7/10. Nice highways!

What do you think of my city?

[Deever 23]

Amerikaner: I like the way you lined the avenue with trees. Good architectural style too (the buildings in general, I mean). 8.5/10.

dosomthin90210: Nice BATs! The buildings and the canals are a good match. 9/10.

Weihnachtsmann: I just can't take my eyes off the floral part of the image! Excellent transportation layout too. 8.8/10.

ryan04: Nice set of buildings there. Taking the shot at night wasn't a bad idea. 7.7/10.

SpecialEddie: Gotham skyline. . . Beautiful. I could see some well-planned roads down there too. 9/10.

Weihnachtsmann: Ahh, more of PEG's seasonal woods. Still good. There's some dilapidation in the lower part of the pic though. 8.5/10.

SimsPlanet2: The layout, to an extent, is realistic. Not to much building repetition too. 8.8/10.

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I've been experimenting with the GIMP program thing and I came up with this:

. . . All Maxis

[topcliff 1]

Weihnachtsmann: 8/10 Like the lake, but a little too Maxis-y.

SimsPlanet2: 8.5/10 I like the style of buildings you chose, but it just doesn't have any grid pattern.

Deever: 6/10 Good use of Maxis, almost looked good. You went overboard in PS, though.

Here's my latest contribution.

[villagemayor 0]

woah, delays at the airport due to heavy rain... Nice effect and nice airport. 8/10

[capitol1 1]

Stuff from my new cj

Simsplanet2:7/10 nice downtown very good blend of buildings..its kind of missing something though.

Deever:7.5/10 very nice maxis buildings..i like alot of the medium dense R$$buildings they look really real. But the slant on the road seems to be alittle steep.

Topcliff:8/10 i like the airport terminla its really nice looknig but im not feelin the effect.