How to Improve Gallery Pictures

I'm not a builder but I am a downloader and from that perspective I can whole heartedly agree that the gallery needs an overhaul. It is very difficult to choose a lot because of the shocking pictures generated with dark lighting (though with some bills a night picture is handy) bad angles and tiny pictures. You basically have to take a chance, download it and have a proper look in game. It would be cool if they could add a pre-via feature that allowed you to go into build mode before you download so you can inspect the property at your leisure, like buying a real house :smile: I'm not sure if that feasible but it would be nice. That would be in addition to the suggestions made by the OP. I do create households for the gallery and think the idea of a close up, rotatable head shot is essential. I recently did a Paris Hilton sim and the shots didn't do the sim justice, she looked more like her in game than in any of the pictures I was given to choose from. I spent several hours on that SIM and was rather disappointed with the outcome. I support your efforts and hope you can bring sit a change but it seems to me that the farther we go the smaller Maxis make the sandbox. It would also be nice if they could create a system which would slew you to choose whether or not you wished to download any custom content used in a build or sim but I digress and that I'd probably fit another discussion and probably couldn't be implemented in this instalment of the greatest game ever created but it is something they should keep in mind for the next instalment. I apologise for going off topic for a bit. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you wonderfully creative builders, my game would be lost without your brilliant creations and hard work. Thank you all so very much; you makes a great game AWESOME.