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Superdude:
This is my first time ever useing photoshop. I am trying to make a marquee.  It looks okay to me but I know it can use improvement.  Please tell me what I am doing wrong or right.  Thanks!!

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http://www.geocities.com/chi_blackhawks_rule/marquee.jpg

Thanks!

Brax:
Be mean huh?  ;D

Ok here goes:

-Frogger is very pixelated.
-I think a background with a little "texture" would be more interesting than the current one.
-It looks WAY too busy to me with all those characters.
-There is no colour theme, it just seems random.

I like the idea of a collage of characters but thats just not working for me..

Sorry but i'm just not liking it.  :-\

I love your font and I like the concept, it just needs more work in my opinion.

Smittydc:
I won't be as harsh as Brax ;)  BUT I think it would look more balanced and less cluttered if you varied the size of the characters -- some small, some big.  And make the "Balicade" text more prominent.

Of course, resizing the objects is more of a pain in photoshop... if you have the graphics individually, I'd put this together in illustrator instead.

CthulhuLuke:
Well I definitely like what you got so far.  It's not the final draft for sure, but it's getting there!  So here's what you need to do, and I'll suggest some methods of fixing them up.
-Boring background, a dull blue doesn't work well with so much action in the foreground.  Your work will look much more professional and better if you do something about whats behind the images.
-Hiding the text can be good, but in this case I personally think it'll look much better shrunk down so no characters touch the letters.
-Where's the SNK characters?? ok, thats just a personal preference

So I have a few suggestions you can try, here's an easy way to make a nice marble background, you can use this on the gradient and it'll look really, really cool, ok in photoshop, do the following:
Select the background layer with the gradient
Filter : Texture:Grain...  (doesnt matter much intensity)
Pixelate : Crystalize...
Image : Adjust : Hue/Saturation...
now when the Hue/Saturation window comes up, click the colorize box, notice how the background has now become marble looking.  In the step of crystallizing, the size of the cells can greatly affect how much like marble it looks.  Just find what you like.
After you click the colorize button, change the Hue to what you like, if you give it a nice blue hue, and turn down the saturation.  A very nice background that looks good on almost any image.
   -Luke
ps: if you want some other cool effects, check out www.photoshopcafe.com   I made up that marbelizing affect the other day, but its easy to follow

Magnet_Eye:
MEAN!!!!  >:(

The link doesn't work, how mean can one be?

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