never turn down your own piece homie, just like i say to idark when he was abt to go down low in motivation when he sees my piece. just you need to put your 100% effort into it..

Do not be discouraged with you own piece. work it like its you baby. and eventually when you did, youll get sum piece thats is worth of thousands of eds..

me myself i have been looking for ppl that can teach me more about graphics even my experience with Photoshop is 6years already.. i felt that the learn for graphics never end..

and its never too late to start.:D

I have used photoshop for 7 times ;D And this was like my best banner, i didn't have any experience few weeks ago, but now i have a little, i am going to watch some tutorials how to use photoshop cuz i saw my friend using photoshop he is professional, and his pictures looked really good! so i wanted to try that too, so my first banner is on my profile ( god of war) i think it is just normal like a no experience banner

i don't really think that any of my banners looks good ;(

About your God of War banner i'd say that it's beginner also when you do try to make something unique try to find a render and then create a background with brushes and effects, i know your still new to Photoshop but just mess around with the tools and different effects on photoshop.

Here's a good site for 100+ renders, most of them are cut out nicely:

www.renderat.com

Oh another tip about your GoW banner, when you try to stick the avatar on it try to resize it erase some parts of the head..

Great work on the entry tho !