TY for your review. I guess it's a matter of preference. I disagree with you and feel the ones that fade into black or a color are the MOST interesting of all. Plus with the size restrictions it can be sometimes tough to make a picture fit as wide at 3000 px with only 200 px for the height. Us designers are often faced with that problem. So we can only use part of the image and instead of cutting it off abruptly, we fade it out. And as I said those are some of my very favorite personas and not just my own. Thank goodness most of my active users on my top themes don't feel that way but thanks in any case for the rating and review!