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Critique my first photoshop/ graphic art

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SlickRick.
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so i finally downloaded cs4 after a year of aspiring to be a graphic designer. i basically have been doing free hand graphic design work, and decided that i would have to get photoshop if i wanted to go anywhere. anyways, there is a contest going on in my city to design the cover for this catalog, and heree is my first entry. i have NOT submitted it yet, so any suggestions to change would be appreciated =)

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May 2 2009 5:40PM
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*Fujative*
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not bad, but i think the light bulb is really cheesy.
May 2 2009 5:51PM
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SlickRick.
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i agree.. but i forgot to add that it is required to have a light bulb. so thats the best thing i could think of to incorporate one
May 2 2009 6:19PM
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*Fujative*
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bahaha! if it is required, that I think that is awesome because I would have done something chessy, therefore I like it.
May 2 2009 6:21PM
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Peter.
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maybe make the gold parts of the lightbulb the same color as the font?
May 2 2009 11:53PM
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summersover
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its good but i dont like the lines coming out from the bulb
a yellow glow around the bulb would look cleaner and slightly more realistic IMO
May 3 2009 12:39AM
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Bepo
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yeah, too much white. tone down the stars glare too and fix the light around the light bulb.
May 3 2009 12:48AM
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DANETRON
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def tone down the glarebehind the letters.
May 3 2009 6:19PM
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Chickendodo
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IMO I don't like the font you used for the title, I love the small words though.  It's just too much going on and hard to read.  I like the lines with the lightbulb, but the lightbulb just looks way out of place in the whole picture, idk how you'd fix that... haha, thats all I got
May 3 2009 6:22PM
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horner
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I'd choose something other than the bleeding cowboy font.  I see it used everywhere.
May 3 2009 6:26PM
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