My banners. please give me your opinions.

[BeardedDragonsRule91]

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[BeardedDragonsRule91]

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[ap_Angelic Purity_ap]

I love your art~! Its nicely put together~! 4laugh

Bumple~! heart  

[EdibleCottonCandie]

It looks like you use Microsoft Paint program.
They are VERY choppy and I don't like the designs or text colors.

I'm not trying to be mean, but just honest.  

[NLSGUNS]

For not being in the banner business for a while I'd say their okay.
Although they might be a little choppy and the colors are just a bit off...
I think it's good for a beginner. <3  

[Shenne Akirami]

Work a little hard on the colors, and make them look a little bit less choppy.

I think they're okay since your starting with this

 

[Paine_Lovely128]

Okay, with some of the banners, you should have the type lighter than the background. Never have your type dark as your background. Always have a contrast.  

[The Purple Cauliflower]

I definitely agree with Paine. Some of the words were hard to read on the banners. When you have a particularly colorful background, try to lighten it so that the words you have over it will show up and people won't be squinting at it to try to figure out what it says.

And the wishlists were a bit overwhelming, intimidating and confusing. I'd say, either use images of the items or just write the items out in words, but not both?  

[Meikiyano]

BeardedDragonsRule91

i did this banner for another friend who wanted a picture of the moon and maybe some stars with the phrase depicted.

NOTE: I'm choosing this one to quote, since you asked, but my critique/suggestions mainly apply to all of your work shown in turn as the one i'm quoting. Also, in by no means am I a professional! This is just a detailed explanation that will help. Just shouting comments, whether positive or negative doesn't help. Knowing why and how something needs improvement does help.

Pros: I like the concept and creativity of this banner, while keeping your style of design in mind, and the person requesting it. The navy blue background is nice, and it reflects the idea of the stars and the moon very well. 3nodding

Out of the banners i've seen, this displays the best picture quality. ^_^

Cons: Other than the text that is hard to read, the text alignment is a little bothersome for me. It helps to align text where it is easily read, and where it visually attracts the person looking at the text to read/pay attention to it.

Suggestions: 1) Try saving your pictures in a different file extension, if possible. .JPEG isn't really recommended, even if it's standard. I usually save in .PNG, which helps a lot. Even if you download Photofiltre, (which is a free photo editor), it has different picture file extensions that help preserve the image.

2) Try to keep the subject of the work as appealing as possible. This is in relation to the text seen as quoted, and to all of your other pieces too. If this specific example was centered, it would provide for a more visually appealing banner, and a better outcome as a whole, in my opinion.

Best of luck and keep truckin'. You're doing well for starting out. wink  

[Dante Demoness]

No bumps in forums please!

Carry on~ xD  

[I r a d i o a c t i v e I]

MAKE THE TEXT EASIER TO READ!!!  

[Larzar]

I don't advise using MS paint to make banners as the quality loss is VERY noticeable.

Also when making your banners make the text standout more, its currently very hard to see and hurts my eyes.

Also I would advise toning down your colors just a tad, I noticed in most of your banners you used very high contrast/fluro colors, you can use them sometimes I would just advise not all the time.

Also use clear fonts (Arial, Helvetica Times New Roman) and avoid Comic-sans, script text and anything to bold, or too slender.  

[Spectacularism]

» I have to agree with everyone else up there. It's a great start, but MS Paint is a huge no-no in the Personalized Graphics industry, and people can really tell that you're new. What you need is GIMP, at least until you decide to buy Photoshop or something. And if you don't want to pay for it or can't afford it, mininova.org, that's all I'm saying.

» Personally, I prefer GIMP. I've been using it for a while now and it can pretty much do the same job as Photoshop, if not better. People think that GIMP doesn't have some of the features that Photoshop does, but the only one I've found that it doesn't is the magnetic lasso. I what I wouldn't give for a magnetic lasso...

» Anyways, good luck in your future endeavours.  

[Simplicities]

I have three suggestions for you, that are very easy to follow.

•Always save as .png format when using Microsoft Paint. This optimizes the image for best quality in MS Paint.

•Try doing Pixel Graphics, such as single or double lined borders. Align your images in an identifiable order, such as image|image|image instead of making a huge mess.

•Try moving to GIMP. It greatly expands horizons, and you can get some quality tutorials for it.

Good luck!