is it really that bad? if i removed the white around the text would that help any...
keep in mind i dont have photoshop or any other expensive image editing software...i just work with what i have on my pc.
oh yea what's muddy?
The smears around the text make it look a bit muddy, I'd take it in a different direction. For example, the avatar that I made for latios (the first that he didn't like the text on that I'll be linking) I took the smear tool and smeared a duplicate layer the letters upward in a flame pattern to get the "fire" look leaving the original layer to serve as the overlay text, and I got a rather nice flame effect that I could manipulate around an environment.
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I bet he made his faq before he even knew chu
and I agree with chingy