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Oh, hey! I try to work alot with layers and transparencies, and mess with the lighting and other such things. I make them in Photoshop, I can always send you a PSD of one to give you an example. =]
When you select the blur tool, if you look at the top, there's a thing that says Strength and you can increase it or decrease it as much as you want. Or if that's not enough, you can go to Filter up at the top and roll over Blur and then there's a bunch of different types of Blurs it can do.
it's ok, this'll give me a chance to level up a bit. :)
but you do know that your lag may be from your tourney :/ you should either play D2 or PO, imo.
Im sorry Swampy but the avatar you sent doesnt do it for me.
The fact is, all around its great, but Rankurusu seems to be all squished in the picture. So if you could resize it (i dont care if the arms go out of the frame a little) it would be awesome.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to do it, though!:P