wordballoon

original image:




some contrast, cropping, lighting effects, dark strokes and some other stuff.

Rate? Suggestions?

oh and does some one know where the inactive notice board is? because I'm going on vacation tomorrow.

ok so I can't afford photoshop, or well I can't find a decent keygen to tell you the truth. So I'm using GIMP, but every time I try to save a file with words or use most decor effects and save it comes out like this.... or kust plain white. any tips?





- adding words


or

-that ws with testing decor : ( sometimes it goes all white : (

I really want to do round corners as well but it goes all white like this:



theres an image there you just cant see it but you can right click it. : (

....anyone?

I'm new to this, so cut me some slack. I'm just fooling around. But which looks better?



or


or




the last one sucks in my opinion. although I hardly doubt any of them are good since I'm just a beginner.