Eye Appeal -vs- Technical Grade

[mintacular]

Wonkaticket, could you define "depth"? That is a condition characteristic I've never considered and would like to learn more. Seriously.

[cfc1909]

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I think John said it best when he stated, "I enjoy looking at the cards. I like the holders but when you've see one flip you’ve seen them all. I don’t spend hours pouring over flips, I do this over the cards". I'd like to add and this is only my opinion, but I think many of us have fallen into a funk anymore of placing a value on a card based solely on what number these darn third party graders have assigned to the flip. Sad!! Very sad indeed!! I'd prefer to be the judge of that thank you. Eye appeal trumps all. Fantastic cards everyone..........

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[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by mintacular

Wonkaticket, could you define "depth"? That is a condition characteristic I've never considered and would like to learn more. Seriously.

Jim & Tony, amazing cards as always!

Pat, depth is when the image has more color and a more 3D look and feel to it. You will notice with many of these cards sometimes they can be in focus but the colors are more mute or not as vivid.

When the colors are layed more boldly as Tony's cards show the central image seems to pop more from the background giving more depth. This also can result in faces having more detail and shading almost making many images of players faces look not like the other. You can see this in the Mitchell card above see not only does it have more deatil in the face but the body of the player seems to not blend with the background as much. I Have a few other examples I will show.

Hope this helps.

Tony could not have said it better myslef we are in a plastic funk and need to break out a bit and get back to the cards the holders can be a nice addition to the cards but shouldn't be the central attention grabber that should be left up to the cards.

Cheers,

John

[ls7plus]

Many thanks to all for taking the time not only to post, but to dig out superb cards demonstrating tremendous eye appeal far exceeding their technical grade!

Sincerely,

Larry

PS: Some beautiful looking cards, Tony A.!

[Big Six]

I originally thought I would be doing my Diamond Stars set in nothing less than PSA 6...until I realized that there seemed to be far more PSA 5s that were nicely centered and had a better eye appeal than the PSA 6s I was limiting myself to...now that I'm open to 5s, I have more selection, can be more picky and have a few extra bucks to throw at the project...just my $.02...

[Jcfowler6]

In my opinion the number assigned by PSA or any other grading service is just an opinion. Usually formed after only a very brief time with it. It's nice to have them in a case protected. Other than that ignore the number and pic up a pretty card when it crosses your path.

[Bicem]

I like high grade ugly cards.

[Mikehealer]

I am all about the grade.