hamstersanonymous

Hey, it's been a while since we've heard from you on this wall... glad to see you're still on it.

First, you changed the text, but did you forgot to change the title in your sig? Or was that intended?

There are still some extraction problems with her hair on the right - those few small strands look kind of rough at the edges.

I'm not really sure, but looks like there's some muckiness in and around the text, as well as some blocks on her sleeve. I'm just guessing from the small filesize that it's saved at too low quality - "save for web" with a setting of 70% is recommended.

I think it was mentioned before, the school corridor background doesn't work too well, because:
- it's an enlarged screencap, the quality is poor, you can see blocky artifacting from the video compression
- the top and bottom still showing your original background is awkward; if you want a corridor then make the entire background the corridor.
- style does not match with the scan very well

I liked the earlier ones with just the flowers in the background better, honestly.

Anyways, glad to see you back, and good luck!

Oooh sudden background change? The school corridor setting idea might work, but the screencap you have there doesn't fit stylistically, it's anime style. The scan is manga, so the coloring is quite different. Also, the top and bottom edges of the screencap make a very sharp border with your original background, which is awkward compared to the general softness of the whole design.

Can't really tell if the drop shadow works better than the blending from before, since you changed the background. Going with the new background alone, it seems to help the lower right edges of the scan fit, but it also exposes all the gritty pixelated edges along the left and top edges - her hair, especially. Maybe with the shadow directly underneath (ie distance 0) would help, though that isn't quite a drop shadow effect anymore, it should be able to 'cover' all the edges of the scan.