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Im making a site to bacialy monitor my progress with graphic making. I have started by making the graphic for m site, tell me what yall think please!
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I use a tutorial to make the actual menu bar, then extended the canavas right and just added on by myself. Though I cheated and used PSP 6, I used to to blend together the lil picture with the tools palate, destroyer, and navy seal. Othere then that it was all done with Photoshop. Anyway I would love some feed back, and tell me how I can make it better! Itsflattened so theres not much I can do to the layers I have already made, but I could always remake it i you guys are very displeased with it. Thanks.

Howdy! OK, the menubar on the left? I like the gradients, but the text really needs some anti-aliasing, those jagged edges are kinda ugly. I'm also thinking the shadows on the text are confusing, is that supposed to be black letters sticking out, or sunken in? I think it'd look better sunken in, in which case the highlight is on the wrong side. The title could be sharper, that IS who you are, you wanna be obvious about that, the blr doesn't really add that all much, but it could. You'll also want to think about what you'll get when you follow a link, another big interface like this, or a smaller version? The blue is also a bit too heavy for me, I avoid real basic primary colors in most of my work, unless it's orange or red, and even then I make them busy with gradients or fire textures. The human eye can get bored real easy, you want to keep the interest up with a lot of subtle details, too subtle to be noticed by most would be cool, you're working on folks subconciousness now. Keep at it, I'd like to see a version 2. (Maybe you could put it on a web page somewhere? Always best to judge these things in context.)<P><IMG SRC="http://www.ozones.com/forum/siggie.gif" border=0>

To clear up a few things. The image would actually be place in a top frame and whould never change except with rollover buttons maybe. After I got do with the menu everything went wrong, <IMG SRC="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif"> Starting to teh trext, to the expansion to the right so the end. And you got it ill make a 2nd version as soon as i have time, sometime this week.<P> <IMG SRC="http://members.dencity.com/ForceCommander/xsig.jpg">

I agree with Doc here, plus a couple things to add -- the shadow coming from the menu bar is kinda funky...it should follow the curve of the menu I'd say. It kinda breaks up the whole peice too much.
Also just wanted to add that it's just as easy or easier to combine the pictures in PS as in PSP, and can be done with better results overall.<P><P>This has been another episode of "My 2 Cents" with your host, DL-44

Yea? The reason I did them in PSP is cause I have used the program before for low quality graphics for web sites and already mastered that part in PSP and was kinda pushed for time so I just went in there to do it.<P> <IMG SRC="http://members.dencity.com/ForceCommander/xsig.jpg">