Newsies Layout, help me spiff it up Options

[Fabio.]

I'm sure not a whole lot of you have heard of Newsies, but bear with me. It's basically a musical made in the nineties about these newspaper boys in 1899 NYC who go on strike. Well with a lot of cute guys and neat dance moves too (I swear, those pictures don't do most of them justice...). Anyhow, I have this layout and I need two things.

First of all I think it needs spiffed up... I've tried brushes and textures and overlays and everything, but it all just looks like it doesn't fit. So I need advice on that.

Second of all, I want to put a quote from the movie on there, and these are the lines I thought of while listening to the sound track (whaaaat, I love this movie). So tell me if one of them jumps out at you, okay?

"Five thousand fists in the sky... five thousand reasons to try."

"Carrying the Banner!"  --(it's, like, their motto)

"Now they're goona see what stop the presses really means"

"When you got a million voices singing, who can hear a lousy whistle blow?"

"Arise and sieze the day"

"Look at me, I'm the king of New York!"

"High times, hard times"

"Once and for all every kid is a friend; every friend a brother"

"This ain't some kids with some pie in the sky, this is do it or die, this is WAR"

And here's the layout:


Thanks for the help, guys.

[Retrogressive]

Okay see the guy right in front of the picture of the class room board? Take him out and move Bill Pullman to that position. Make the two guys to the right end rougher looking. Yes, unsmooth the blending slightly, make it have texture.


That's what I think?


1. "High times, hard times"
2. "Arise and seize the day."