Do you ever read a review and find there are too many images?

While I understand that pictures can be useful, I guess I use them sparingly. To me, they're especially helpful if something is different from the product images or unable to be seen in them, like with textures. Pictures can be good to describe unique shapes that are hard to define in words or flaws of a product. Lately, I've run across reviews with nearly a dozen pictures and I find this overwhelming. If an image isn't significantly different from others or I can't readily identify what I'm looking at or why, it doesn't add to the review for me. less

Do you ever read a review and find there are too many images?

While I understand that pictures can be useful, I guess I use them sparingly. To me, they're especially helpful if something is different from the product images or unable to be seen in them, like with textures. Pictures can be good to describe unique shapes that are hard to define in words or flaws of a product. Lately, I've run across reviews with nearly a dozen pictures and I find this overwhelming. If an image isn't significantly different from others or I can't readily identify what I'm looking at or why, it doesn't add to the review for me. less

Well my advice is... don't read them and PLEASE don't give low ratings ONLY because the reviewer added photos. If your personal preference is that you don't like em' then you can always move on. Wait for another review. Personally, I am very weird about buying something (lingerie especially) if I cannot see photos to show the colors and actual product.

Quite frankly I can't understand why there are constant complaints about something so damn petty.

For some, photos are a need. Now I have seen some reviews that are ONLY photos and very little info and it seems the photos are there not to show the lingerie, but to show the person. THAT I can see being a problem. Nudity to an extend, I can see being something that's a problem (at least if there's no warning first) but just pictures of a product bothering someone this badly? Just don't understand it.

I add photos because it helps others to know what to expect. 9 times out of 10 a photo of the product itself will help at least one or 2 people.

If there's a few photos of the product like say clothing. A photo of them wearing it, a photo of the inside of the product lying flat (like a corset) and even photos of tags, those are useful when combined with A FULL review. If the writing part is lacking due to too many photos, yes it can be less helpful. But no sense in bashing those who do (like me and yes, it happens to me) over adding pictures.

I try to choose to just focus on my own reviews rather than bitch and complain about everything others do. If I don't like it, there's really no reason for me to bring that up when it's been brought up a million times. That is just me though. less

Personally, if I'm interested in an item I want to see all the pictures I can so I know exactly what I'm going to purchase. Not everyone has the luxury to just send it back if it's not what they thought it would be.
I also like to give readers a good idea on what the item really looks like in mine. The product images are often rather different, so I appreciate seeing buyers views of them!

And if someone puts a heap of photos in, I don't have an issue scrolling by if I'm not interested in seeing them all. Some people will want to see them. less

I've seen a few reviews that I would consider to have an excess amount of pictures. Personally, I try to be sure each picture serves a specific function in my review. Too many pictures breaks up the flow of a review and to me impacts it just as negatively as if the written were babbling about useless information (at least what I consider useless). I also see a lot of poor quality photos that are either dark or out of focus. If you are going to include photos, please take the time to edit and preview them before including in a review. less

I've definitely seen reviews with what I would consider to be too many pictures. To me, you have too many pictures when the review is mostly pictures, when the words are broken up and the review reads choppy because of all of the pictures, or I can't seem to focus on the writing because of all of the pictures. Yes, pictures can be extremely helpful, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. If there's something really intricate you want to show, maybe make a small collage rather than post 5 full size pictures? Please don't put in 4 pictures of the packaging unless it's something really special. And please try to make picture placement make sense.

I try to keep my pictures in one section of my reviews so that they can be easily ignored if you only want the text. That being said, I have added pictures throughout other places in my reviews, but I tried to only do so in a way that broke it up like an extended review template. As for voting on reviews that have a lot of pictures, I have voted lower than I might have if I felt as though the amount of pictures took away from the content of the review. If I can't get myself to read what you've written, your review is not useful to me. Or at least not as useful. I haven't voted SU or lower just because of pictures, but having too many in a manner that really breaks up the flow of the review has been the difference between useful and extremely useful for me. less

I haven't seen a review with as many pictures as you describe, and idk what I'd think if I did, but thus far I've found pictures in reviews entirely helpful.

I get that some information you might get from a picture is "redundant" because things get pictured on the main page. I dont know what it is, but somehow I feel like it's *different* to see pictures someone took themselves. Pictures with the measurements, pictures that haven't been photoshopped or altered and modeled, with seems taken out and color brightened. Pictures of it in hand, so you can see a little more about functional size and what not. Pictures with it next to other items. All that sort of thing.

I think my favorite picture review I've seen lately is link by Curiouscat. They were really great because I hadn't had much opportunity to play with an Ella in the store, and even though I'm fairly familiar with Lelo toys and what not, it was just really nice to see such lovely pictures of it being held, in the packaging, next to a regular household item, etc. Really helped me imagine what it would be like to have the toy in front of me and whether it was really what I wanted. less