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It's better. But you blurred it a little bit too much imo. And try to fill up the black parts.

Nicely done! Only the candle looks like it's hollow inside.

.xcf is the gimp file format. As this is only one layer only a .png transparent image should suffice.

The button is not that bad but it needs a few touch-ups. First of all, I wouldn't have used the grass brush to give it some texture. Also you can see where the brush you used comes out of the circle so I recommend you to use a clipping mask for that. For a novice I guess it's not bad just don't give up and keep practising. As for some of my recent work. Here are some logos I created recently:

That's what I thought when I started working on it. But that's before these messages came: http://gyazo.com/3131b944ded7acf32b27c8dae4ed4871.png

That's true ;) apparently he wanted it to look like this: http://www.ultraimg.com/images/OxFIS.gif

I agree that it's quite annoying to watch it shake all the time but he wanted that glitching kind of effect. At first my transitions were a lot smoother but that's one of the things I had to edit afterwards.

...of editing stuff my costumer is finally satisfied with the piece I'm creating for him. My first attempt was decent but then he gave me a list of things he wanted me to change, I think there were over 30 things on there, he was very picky (but he paid enough ;)) There are things I personally would've done different but me and my costumer are happy with the outcome. What do you guys think?

You can still make the bg dark purple by putting a dark purple background layer under it and put this layer on lighten. And yes, your text is much better on this one. Good job!

I agree with @Levi I think I already mentioned before that you should really work on your text. Other than that, nice work!

That depends, It's a little bit basic and plain but if it displays everything correctly there's really no need for anything fancy.

Hmm, I'm not sure what to think about the first one. I don't have a lot of experience with that kind of effects myself but I feel like the effect you were trying to create needs more work. I do like the second one though, good job!

It's the Invision logo... From IPB as in Invision Power Board. I already sent the icon to Maldesto a while ago as I'm in possesion of the vector file of the logo, another admin just has to upload it through the ftp as Maldesto doesn't have ftp access.

Looks pretty sexy! Sucks that it had to contain so much text though.

Nope, these are just userbars so they don't really need a mouseover function. I did make animated versions for both the legacy and the diamond (paid ranks) but they use two different themes and the edges of the transparent gif looked horrible so they couldn't use them.

Hehe thanks. And ye, I don't really want stuff getting ripped when my clients paid for them.

Userbars I made for a gaming community owner. Obvisously the actual ones are smaller. Vector tiger I did just for fun/practise. Teamicons I made for a client.

This one was not really about the colors anyway, it was just to practise the basics on. Also I'm partly colorblind so matching colors has never been my strongest point

Thanks bro! That was before I posted the V2, did you see that one as well? I never studied for this. I just do this as a hobby and figure things out myself. I did make some animated sigs and banners before so I already had some pratice. Haha thanks. And once you get the hang of it it's not that difficult, it's still very time consuming though.

Same applies for a jpeg, but it's even worse.

Enlarging a .png without loss of quality is impossible no one will be able to do that. This would only be possible if you had a vector image of the monkey.

Just did that, edited it in the original post.

They are pretty popular on another forum as they draw a lot of attention. And this is just me trying to practise, never made something like this before. It still needs a lot of work as it's not even close to being finished. Also I can easily speed things up, delete some frames, edit the animations or leave some things out to make the actual content appear faster. As for making the animations smoother, I think I know what you mean. I can edit it so there are multiple animations going on at the same time which will speed things up and will make it appear smoother as well.

V1 V2 This is what I got so far. I'd like to keep it as minimalistic as possible and I'm probably still going to make some changes to the style of the title. It's all done in Adobe Photoshop as I have little to no knowledge of Adobe After Effects. Opinions/suggestions?

Oh yeah sure. Will do that tomorrow, I think I didn't see that one because the rangeguild image in your sig was broken. EDIT: Here you go!