Well, I decided to play around tonight with paint.net and with the help of youtube instructional videos, I was able to use three images and combine them into this signature pic. Please tell me what you think. I'm up for many suggestions and helpful hints, as I found I had a lot of fun making it. Thanks

looks very good.I like. :)

Well it seems to me you have a good eye for colour and grafix and sounds like you had fun making it so Id suggest you got yourself a copy of Photoshop, do as many tutoials as you can and see what the outcome is. You wont need to look far for a copy Im sure lol

Thank you both!

Keep up the good work.

wow that looks fantastic !!!! i love the background

Thank you

I'm pretty pleased myself with what I accomplished my first go around.

Looks great, keep up the good work.

Looks excellent it is of high detail and crisp for it's size and you can't see any layer differences "well at lest I can't" keep it up.

GIMP is also free and good as well.

Thank you all.

And, I've tried GIMP before but I just didn't get along with it. I found it a lot easier, at least now as a newbie, to use paint.net