Ok, for the backgrounds, I am not great either by any means but I am improving. For the backgrounds you need to look at some tutorials, they are all over. You can find them on different GFX Forums, or GFX websites. Like I said they are all over. A couple you might want to look into is learning to effectively use brushes. Then you would also want to find a vast selection of different brushes to make some backgrounds with. Brushes are all over too. But don't limit your backgrounds to brushes. There are many other programs out there that will help in creating some really crazy 3 dimensional backgrounds. It just depends on your style. As for you cut, yeah, its bad. And you said you knew that. Check out some PSD sites, they have pre cut images. That way you dont have to spend all day cutting, some crazy master cutter has already done that for you, lol. But if you cant find the one you want you are left with cutting anyway I guess. The text, ehhh, its "ok" at best. Fonts is my biggest problem. Also, possibly, if you were to make them smaller, it would help out. Because having it big, you are almost always left with open blank space, unless your making a collage. But that way there is less boring areas. Hope that wasnt too harsh. lol. I tried to be nice, its just that does need a lot of work...