EDIT: I can appreciate the fact that there probably aren't many OSU fans here. What I am asking for is just an opinion on the layout and any photoshop ideas that I can implement to help. I am using red translucent leaf switches.
Okay, I feel pretty good about this one. This is my first stab at this stuff, so I'm a cut and paste king. Outside of asking Mark very nicely to do some work on my photo's, I'm pretty much set with this layout. I'm going to give it a shot on my own. I've come this far.
It covers all of the Saturday specialties that are important to me. The man in the middle is Woody Hayes, the legendary coach. The four guys around him and the one at the bottom of the trackball are all of the heisman trophy winners.
The band is a huge thing at OSU, so that is why they are faded in on the right and when they dot the "I" of script OHIO, the drum major dips back like the one on top of player2's controls. Brutus is the mascot and I love the picture of him with the flag.
Current coach Tressel sings the alma mater after every game and that is what he and the team is doing in the background on the left. I used Ohio Script for my lettering. I used Pixel Huggers artwork for the Mame logo and Byoac. Thought those were a necessity. Wink
The white square around the joysticks and the leaf in the middle are the buckeye leaf's players get for their helmets, so again, an OSU reference Buckeye fans would get.
I did vectorize the Golden Tee Arrows myself and the shot chart. I used the tutorial in this section and it was excellent! I also vectorized the joystick arrows, but they were easy. The only other creative thing I did was grab that Ohio Script off the web, as it is perfect for OSU.
Again, I plan on asking Mark to help blend in the photos. I guess I am looking for opinions on the fading and the arrangement of the work, just to see what you guys think. How is it for a first time?