Actually, I like V2 better, the color seems to give it more depth...and I agree with Torrent and 2fang...lose the text. Overall its great work though ^_^
yea, i can see y Jcoca says it gives more depth. It's kinda borderline tho. If the colors were any lighter, I dont think it woulda looked right. Gothic style movie, so gotta make gothic theme. Thats just how I roll tho, lol. I try to match like that.
90% of the time I leave text out all together, I do throw my signature (JCoca) in there somewhere set to overlay very very light (10-20% opacity) in most of my sigs though.
lol, I just flick through till I find something that could work, then mess with it and move it around till it looks good, then blend if nececary. Not much experience tho, lol.