FullMetal*Panic!

a very simple skin^^ available to dl from here

I have a pair of suggestions for you:

1. In the picture, Kaname looks like she's stretched horizontally.

2. The image is very blurry. Perhaps do a screencap of a different frame in the sequence, or a different scene totally. A scene where she's not moving would be clearest, of course. IIRC, Jae's screencaps in the gallery are good quality and you might want to use one from there.

3. The color of the text (orange) and buttons doesn't work for me. Use a color from the image. In PSP or PS, the eyedropper tool will let you do it and give you the hex code for the color. The color of her hair or the red bow would look good.

4. Consider making the equalizer "invisible." From what I understand, most people don't even use that function. Another possibility is to use a muted version of the image at each setting.

5. The orange color scheme of the playlist doesn't do anything for me either. An adaptation of the suggestion in item 3 is to use colors from a part of her that has multiple tones, such as her hair. Use the lighter one as the background and the darker one for the text.

I like how you had her not quite centered so her face was not obscured by the equalizer bars. Perhaps you can crop the image differently so there is more above her so the song title isn't going through her head.

Samantha

Personally, I think that shot's one of the most beautiful made of Kaname
for the FMP!F OP and quite appropos... but like Pooka said, the 'visibility'
of the winamp controls kinda takes away from it. Overall tho, it's quite fitting












Regards

Ya very nice indeed. MINMI - Shiki no Uta, good song.

And the lyrics are so very, very, fitting for Kaname and Sousuke. I must have replayed the opening animation umpteen times. Interestingly enough, I
find Kaname looks quite mature in those opening scenes. Not quite so perky,
as in the episodes themselves. IMHO anyway.

PookaKitten wrote:2. The image is very blurry. Perhaps do a screencap of a different frame in the sequence, or a different scene totally. A scene where she's not moving would be clearest, of course. IIRC, Jae's screencaps in the gallery are good quality and you might want to use one from there.

Actually, I kinda like that one. The blurry effect of her spinning is pretty nice.

question and answer time!

1. In the picture, Kaname looks like she's stretched horizontally.

- ..... um? i did not stretch the image if that's what u mean. the major edit i did was to re-paint the subtitles out.


2. The image is very blurry.

- now that I did do.


3. The color of the text (orange) and buttons doesn't work for me.

- well, the reason I used orange was to reflect the autumn bg.



4. Consider making the equalizer "invisible."

- actually, I usually include the non-eq version for most of my skins. but this time I was MUY lazy If anyone wants it, I'd be happy to oblige.


5. The orange color scheme of the playlist doesn't do anything for me either.

- i am sorry m(_ _)m


Perhaps you can crop the image differently so there is more above her so the song title isn't going through her head.

- now that's just... very hard to do? there is so little space between the song title and position bar (and the controls). Unless I resize the img so Kaname would be much much smaller. But that's no fun -__-

Well, I'm not the specialist, but I liked your skins ^^