C&C please?

For a beginner, I say you're good. As for your newest banner; good that you haven't placed the render in the center because it would horrible like that. Be care full so you wont over do with the brushing because it seems like you have brushed over her face, but I wouldn't know since you haven't showed what stock you've used. There's soo much space on the left so I'd have added something to make up for that. The text and the border is horrible. Orange as border is never good, never. You shouldn't have lowered the opacity of the text and another type of font and color would make it look better. ^^

I notice that on your latest banner, there's a bit of brushing on the top right part of the border. I guess maybe you've moved the brushing layer over the border layer for some reason? In any case, try not to do that--save the border for second to last, or last. Also, a slim (one-pixel) black or darker colored border would work better for this piece than the orange you've got there.

The blending is good, I don't see any on her face. The bulk of the blending is on the lower part of the stock, and that's pretty neat.

Like taki said, the rest of the sig is empty, except for the small text. But don't try and make the text larger to compensate. (I tried that before, and it made the sig look like utter crap) In the future, if you're going to use a smaller stock, try a smaller canvas so that you fill the canvas more and don't get those empty spots. Also, do some painting with an interesting brush so you get a bit more substance in the sig.

Thanks, but i didnt use any brushes at all on the brown one. That must have been a really good tut then.

~Salocin