My first pokemon banner

I made this about an hour ago, I got the spititomb image off google and kind of went from there. Im kind of proud of myself and dissaponted. Proud because It's the first banner I've made that doesnt look that bad, dissapointed because it could have turned out so much better.



I am posting this to see how I can improve. What should I do better at next time? PLEASE point out mistakes and give suggestions.
For some reason two lines appeared on both sides of the spirittomb when I was workong on it, why?

I just want suggestions on what I should do better on for future banners, I kind of want to get better and start doing this more.

The whole thing took about thirty minutes for me to do. I was playing with the filter designs until I was able ot get the green/purple effect in the background.
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This is my 2nd banner,. extremly basic but yeah. Please tell me what you think.
Im proud of it

Apreciate it <333333333

BARRY...I HAVE ONE WORD TO SAY TO YOU.....

EPICAWESOMENESS

(that counts as oneword right?)

I appreciate that alot, you've just made me feel alot less nervous about it. I'm glad you like it.
Its very halloweeny to

You done a really good attempt at your first pokemon banner ^^

I would suggest going to a site like dafont and having a look at those fonts (it looks as though your font has been done in word art)

Yeah, if the font was improved, it would be very epic for a first banner. ^-^

No anti-aliasing on the font. The lines on the render might have come from a black background. I think that the background could have a bit more on it. Other than the stuff behind Spiritomb (No better way to describe it... >.>), the background is black, which is boring:P. But it's pretty good for a first, I think.

Love the spooky theme <3

I'd make the text green or purple with some type of glow or shadow to make it pop.

Other than that, great first banner! What program did you use?

Appreciate it all you guys <333 Griffin showed me a really good site last week for fonts. I'll check that out.
I used photoshop CS4.

I'm not sure how to color text like that yet.

If you are using PSCS4, then I /think/ there should be some sort of checkbox with the words 'anti-aliasing'. Make sure that box is checked. I dunno though, I'm pretty unfamiliar to CS4's interface.

Appreciate it <<33

I'll try that. I'll re-post the same banner somtime tomorrow evening in this same topic and see if the improvements have done anythong.

Eminem song?

what? No. God I hate him

Barry wrote:what? No. God I hate him

Aww, why?

His voice gives me headaches. Im not saying that to be rude or mean, It's true. My head starts...throbbing when his songs come on.
I cant listen to him.

Barry wrote:His voice gives me headaches. Im not saying that to be rude or mean, It's true. My head starts...throbbing when his songs come on.
I cant listen to him.

Haha, lol, same thing happens to me when I listen to screamo.

Jenrya Miku wrote:

Barry wrote:His voice gives me headaches. Im not saying that to be rude or mean, It's true. My head starts...throbbing when his songs come on.
I cant listen to him.

Haha, lol, same thing happens to me when I listen to screamo.

that's why you don't listen to screamo <3

I've made a second banner, it's on the first post of this threa.d Please tell em what you think, I tried somthing diffrent this time but it is really basic.
remember it's only my 2nd banner so dont laugh at it >3

also how can I make text look cooler? like...cool like how griffin adox do int here shops?

My comments:

The renders (Aipom & Hiyappu) are a little blurry (Aipom) and the edges are scratched up (Hiyappu).

The background is just simple color, which is boring a bit, I don't know if the Spiritomb one had no background, but the glow from the render at least made it look like it wasn't just a bucket fill.

The text, again looks like WordArt and is plainly colored.

It's really good for a second attempt, however!

1. SAVE AS .PNG!!!!!!
2. thanks to the jpeg format, the image quality is really bad...
3. that's all i have to say right now -3-

aww thanks griffin!!!!!!!!
gawd...any way i can fix it now?..improve the quality or...idk x_x

Thanks for acknowledging my comments. o_o wat

[Meap]Katniss~<3 wrote:Thanks for acknowledging my comments. o_o wat

I saw it, appreciate it. I didnt answer because I was busy when I saw it, then I just forgot to. Sorry.
=p

no Barry the image has been damaged forever, so for future referance.

PNG = Best for Big Images
GIF = Animations
JPG = Best for small Images

Got it?

are you using PS? just after the file name save it as .png