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    1 being without the sword, two being with the sword, which is better This is by no means a show off, it's just pieced together stuff. What can I do to make this better? Please give good and honest feedback and let me know what I should do to improve on this!

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    I prefer the version with the sword - feels more complete. Not sure if it is the .GIF causing this, but the prayer icon above the main text looks slightly low quality.
    I'd also give a shadow to the shape that the main text is sitting on, for the purposes of stronger definition.

    It's not a bad piece, it just needs more enhancing factors to it. It seems a bit plain at the moment, try experimenting with inner glows and shadows. You can add a burn-like effect to the bottom banner; that might work well.

    If you want to provide the .PSD to me, I can try to see what I can do to spice it up a bit more. That is, of course, at your own discretion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadow Lux View Post
    I prefer the version with the sword - feels more complete. Not sure if it is the .GIF causing this, but the prayer icon above the main text looks slightly low quality.
    I'd also give a shadow to the shape that the main text is sitting on, for the purposes of stronger definition.

    It's not a bad piece, it just needs more enhancing factors to it. It seems a bit plain at the moment, try experimenting with inner glows and shadows. You can add a burn-like effect to the bottom banner; that might work well.

    If you want to provide the .PSD to me, I can try to see what I can do to spice it up a bit more. That is, of course, at your own discretion.
    It is just the GIF. Thanks for the feedback! Add me on discord and I'll send it over? Jack#5515
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadow Lux View Post
    I prefer the version with the sword - feels more complete. Not sure if it is the .GIF causing this, but the prayer icon above the main text looks slightly low quality.
    I'd also give a shadow to the shape that the main text is sitting on, for the purposes of stronger definition.

    It's not a bad piece, it just needs more enhancing factors to it. It seems a bit plain at the moment, try experimenting with inner glows and shadows. You can add a burn-like effect to the bottom banner; that might work well.

    If you want to provide the .PSD to me, I can try to see what I can do to spice it up a bit more. That is, of course, at your own discretion.
    To add onto what Shadow has mentioned, consider adjusting the text on the banner as well to better align with the title text. It being so dominantly to the right at the moment gives it a bit of a weird misalignment feeling. The sword version is definitely the way to go, though I'd maybe play around a bit with the orientation to see if there maybe isn't a better angle to go with.
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    If I'm being honest I feel like non of the colours stand out too much, besides the Yellow hilt of the sword and the red ribbon, and the colours that do stand out are assets that have been taken from google, not saying that's a bad thing but if I were you I would want to make the text stand out above all else to improve you could probably start by experimenting with different fonts and colours that pop out, but when doing this make sure that the colours work and aren't random A font that I've been recommended and would also recommend is the Cinzel font.

    Another thing to note would be on the frame where the sword is on top of the shape and text the text looks a bit stretched, did you duplicate the text and move it a slight bit? if I'm being honest I'm not really a fan of that.


    Some further suggestions would be to
    - Get a little bit more creative with the shapes, I'm not too great with this either but it's something I need to work on too but some advice that I received was to expirement with shapes and not to get too wild or else it will look messy, (when creating shapes you can use the pen / curvature it's very useful)
    - Use better gradients for example the border of the shape if you used a better gold gradient maybe it would stand out a little bit more you can search for good gradients on google.

    This is only my opinion though, don't take it to heart I'm only saying what I think, what I'm trying to say is I'm not trying to be negative or anythin'
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    Can you try having the sword poke through the wood? Maybe have it go in the beginning and poke out through the green bit.
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    I like it more with the sword, there's just this little spot that should be touched up.
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    Good one with the sword
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    Please upload a clean version (both of them side by side) so we can analyze them in their proper PNG/JPEG quality.
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    Will do, working on a bit of the suggestions now and will upload in a bit! Thank you for the feedback, really appreciate it!
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