I wish I had photoshop skills 
Those look awesome Kyrdua and Havoc
it doesn't demand skills, just training. Ya know, If you have gift for something, you'll never know about it if you wont try doing something.
Havoc is waaa~y better than I'm, and you know, I made my current set in 4 hours... and this set was my 5th project. so, I'm still a beginner myself, but I'm already cabable of doing sumthing basic.
actually it requires imagination and creativity, imagination to visualize what you aim to make, and creativity to acquire that goal, I for one use at least 5-6 pics when making a siggy, and around the same amount of pics to make an avatar, every element i want to use I make in a new window, resize, rotate, change colors, seriously, i do a lot of stuff with em, then I just add everything into a PSD in Photoshop, each element as a separate layer, that way I cave total control over what I make, and where I put it, then I add effects like glow, shadows, or stuff like that, save as PSD, then I make all layers merge for a bit, save as PNG format, then revert back the PSD to the save point, then I check out the PNG file I just made if it looks good, and doesn't weigh too much, if it does, I use hammer to squeeze it out of the fat file
and my works are not hasty too, it takes a long time for me to do anything decent, at least an hour of work, cropping, copying and pasting, editing effects, I'm not finished until I can say, yes this is what I wanted to make, if I don't feel that way, I consult some people on the topic, or on MSN.
I envy Tatsujin his skill, though his style doesn't go with me very well I admire his work in general, he can make really sweet stuff, Enzedder loves playing around cute pics as well, and I like his works, I still have a loooooooooong way to go to reach their level, but i practice, and I only show the public what I can say "Yes, this looks good", anything else stays here on my HDD so no one can say it's embarrassing to be this bad.
However i thank those that think my pieces are nice.
P.S. dammit mAh get that plugin already, it's really hard sometimes reading your posts
