Help and Suggestions 101

[mattitude]

Well, I was in the midst of trying to create a new banner when I just sort of felt...stuck and hit a brick wall. Does anybody else ever do that?

So then I got an idea! People who feel the same way can post works in progress here and hopefully receive ideas or suggestions from others on what exactly they think could be done.

To start things off:

This is where I am so far. This is going to be based on the wrestler Kane, but I'm not sure what to do to really make things creative here. Basically all I have is that so far to serve as a background.

What would you do?

[BuffyFanOne]

Maybe try a close up of his eyes faded in the background and then a badass picture of him in focus off to the right side of the banner.

[mattitude]

Heyyyyyyyyyyy! Yay, a suggestion! ^_^

I've actually been working on it a little since my first post. I think your idea is awesome! I'm definitely going to try that out and see how it looks.

Here is what I ended up doing but I'm going to try your version, too:

EDIT:

Well, now with Jon's suggestion, here's what I came up with! I think it looks pretty cool, what do you guys think?

[BuffyFanOne]

I personally like my idea the best.......der!

But seriously, they both look good!
Your photoshop skills have come a long way!
Maybe I can convince you to make me a Gwen Stefani cell phone wallpaper one of these days

[BuffyFanOne]

WOO! You use the one I "helped" with...therefore, I think I deserve a little credit in your banner section!
kidding of course. It looks great!!

[nmcil]

Main thing is to decide what you want to say with your image - makes for stronger and focused images once you know what it is you want to say - what do I really like about the image or elements?