I thought you were going to edit the size of the image

Are you making your layouts in Window's Paint?

Not if the layouts I make quick are REALLY good. I'd rather be quick and really good than really good and REALLY SLOW.

What watermark? If you're talking about the "© marinshe" on it, like I said in the start of this topic, the reviewer said I had to give credit to where I got the image and that's what that is.
Okay, I'll take what you say into consideration witht my next layout.

I took like 3 months for a break and didn't post anything in the showcase booth so don't say I post things everyday. This was going to be the last one. GEEZ.

Not if the layouts I make quick are REALLY good. I'd rather be quick and really good than really good and REALLY SLOW.
Okay. Check it out in about an hour and see how it looks then.
If you look at the time that I edited it then you'll figure that part out.

Are you serious?
You call that really good?
It's basically text slapped onto an image. There's no evidence of you even ATTEMPTING to blend the text in.
The background doesn't fit the layout AT ALL. The colors might match, but it looks very unprofessional and it doesn't even look nice because you made it repeat so there are random ugly bars of blue going down the page.
The banner is way too big for the module below it.

That doesnt even make sense. Did you practice during the break? Or did you just not make anything for 3 weeks? I hope you got the idea that we wanted you to practice.

I wasn't saying that my graphics/layouts were good. You misunderstood me. I was just saying that I'd like to be able to get really good and make like 10 layouts & 100 graphics in one day to put on my site, but I wasn't saying that I can do that now.

Let me tell you right now that that is literally impossible. There are not enough hours in the day to even do one quarter of that.

The update looks pretty good setup wise, but the gradient doesn't look very good. I meant make the white at the top and make go into a gradient into a blue at the bottom.

You should make the content area below the image the same width of the image.

I think you should get rid of that gradient altogether.

...but the gradient doesn't look very good. I meant make the white at the top and make go into a gradient into a blue at the bottom.

Yup. I meant something like this.

@theerinkal

do you think it's a layout you'd really really wanna use for yourself?

@theerinkal
do you think it's a layout you'd really really wanna use for yourself?

No, I'd like to display it on my site for other people to use though.

Try and make layouts that are up to your own standards of what you look at for layouts. If you don't even like them, then what makes you believe other people will? And not necessarily theme or colors, just the all around look and quality of the layout

Try and make layouts that are up to your own standers of what you look at for layouts. If you don't even like them, then what makes you believe other people will? And not necessarily theme or colors, just the all around look and quality of the layout

I think we should let her fiddle with the layout herself now - if we keep telling her literal things to do, her own creativity won't have a chance to fully grow. Just a suggestion...