Pigero's Gallery!?

[Pigero]

Awrightey...I'm no artist...but I guess I'ma make a gallery...mostly for kicks. Here's a banner I made for my site that's opening pretty soon:
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t227/...Final2.jpg

It's okay, I guess....

[Veritas]

Its way too blury.

[Shun]

You should try to play around with the blending options when you use gradient maps. Just throwin' them on like that looks ugly. The text is too hard to read and as Jeice said the entire thing is way too blurry. It's good to see you trying though, keep it up. Practice makes perfect. =)

Edit: You should try to do less complicated work, maybe a sig? You had all those random images thrown next to each other it didn't flow right. Empty space is bad but being 'too busy' can be just as bad.

[Toshiro]

Like GJ said, try to lessen the load on it. It's heavy blurred, and my guess is you used maybe a guarsin blur on there at some point or another. The gradiant's need to be lessened, and also their blends need to be worked over heavily.

Reiterating what GJ said, start simple. Toy around with effects, and then go for the fully loaded stuff. Don't push your self to hard to fast, or else your gonna get sloppy works. I speak with the air of knowledge on that, some of my stuff at start was absolutely horrid when I tried to get better.

Hunt down some tutorial's from places (deviantART does some good ones) and then work your way though the styles to find one your content with.

[Pigero]

Well, again, it's just for kicks.
I'm also not willing to use photoshop, so the majority of it comes from microsoft paint. The rest comes from the "Greyscale" and "Negative" Images from IrfanView.