Header logo thingy...

[Dapandyman]

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.

[scoobywow]

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.

[Dapandyman]

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

[Dapandyman]

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

[SpartanSoft]

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

[Dapandyman]

yeah, diagonally away from the sun, right?

[abrewitt]

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.

[Dapandyman]

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

[Dapandyman]

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

[Lchad]

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

[Ryan Fait]

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

[Lchad]

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

[snow]

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!

[JacobHaug]

hahaha...nice inspiration!!

[Dapandyman]

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

[snow]

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?

[Antwan]

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

[Ryan Fait]

Yeah, it should definitely be refracted.

[Dapandyman]

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

[Ryan Fait]