Header logo thingy...

Yeah...... can you comment on this - i have no idea how good it is...
btw, it is 1024 width but i rescaled it to fit better in my post.

Thanks,
Dapandyman.

It is a interesting design, generally the sunset is quite good but the water and reflection dont quite look right. The text would stand-out better in white I think.

right, ill change the text colour and repost the result, thanks

ugh i dont have the .xcf file on this computer i will have to wait a few hours to get it... sorry

The Shadow may look more realistic if it was more diagonal from the main text..

yeah, diagonally away from the sun, right?

The sunsets good but the reflection of the text should be a gradient, like on this logo: http://designbit.co.uk/wp-content/th...s/cubeleft.png

hope that helps.

it would look lots better that way i was lazy when making it... lol,
thanks

do you think the water should be a bit less orange?

Yes the water at sunset is more of a blue/black. That would be more realistic!

No! Water is colorless, it reflects whatever is around it! Making it blue would make it look horribly fake.

Hmmmm... uploaded this beautiful photo to give Dapandyman inspiration!

Hmm, I don't like it sorry...

Could I see it in situe? At the moment I think it looks too... I'll explain when I see it in place!

hahaha...nice inspiration!!

its currently up on my testing area (www.freewebs.com/testingskills) if you wanna check it out.

Okay - the background looks lovely stretched accross the top, great contrast with the black.

I think the writing really lets it down - at the moment it's difficult to read as the contrast lets it down on the l.h.s. and the text looks slightly pixelated (avoid at all costs in your heading - even if it results in slightly longer extra loading times as a last resort).

But I think the problems lie deeper than that... there really is something missing - I'd do a few different designs and see what else you could come up with?

Use photoshop to 'Skew' the reflected text so that it looks as if it's flowing across the water and not just straight

Yeah, it should definitely be refracted.

i still cant get that damn xcf!
i've done a few designs using vectors (on paper) which are based around this and im gonna computerise them soon
by the way, thanks for all the great advice you've all provided