This first and foremost problem with these screenshots is they just don't look good, and this is primarily due to the use of a tacky dark-to-light gradient for the background.
First impression lasts. Steep grayscale gradient is firmly associated with an amateurish Gimp job and it's an exact opposite of polish. It's something that a noob designer would throw into an image to spruce things up.
I read his post, I went to the project page on his site and the app there indeed looks really good. It is polished, a total beaut. Then I followed a link to the AppStore and what do I see? A set of typical programmer-made screenshots. All that "polished" impression goes quickly down the drain and I leave the app's page in 2 seconds. Because the screenshots I see don't look good. Because of the cheesy background gradient :-\
First impression lasts. Steep grayscale gradient is firmly associated with an amateurish Gimp job and it's an exact opposite of polish. It's something that a noob designer would throw into an image to spruce things up.
I read his post, I went to the project page on his site and the app there indeed looks really good. It is polished, a total beaut. Then I followed a link to the AppStore and what do I see? A set of typical programmer-made screenshots. All that "polished" impression goes quickly down the drain and I leave the app's page in 2 seconds. Because the screenshots I see don't look good. Because of the cheesy background gradient :-\