This sounds like a great idea, and if atheists start hatting on your layouts, say," HATERZ GONNA HATE!"

Singelli : I'm gonna guess this is the thread you were talking about?

Great idea, btw. Can't wait to see the next one!

BluemageKyle :  LOL  Don't worry. I'm not trying to please anyone.  

mrfe :  Yep, this is the one.  My next layout (this one) is pretty much the same.  I wanted the image in the background to be brighter, but I couldn't get the text to show up very well with it being bright.  These two aren't my favorite of the bunch, nor are either of these the one I hate.  LOL  Of course, this project will take me quite some time.... these five alone took me about 2 hours. Of course, I also did a TON of experimenting, which I most likely won't do in the future.  I was just trying out a few new things, and trying to make the ugly one less ugly.  So that exhausted quite a bit of my time.  haha.

God bless you both!

Ignoring the religious aspects of the layout, I'll just comment on how it looks.

mlb789 :  Thanks for the input!!!  I actually didn't like the bright sunburst in the middle as well, but I feared that darkening the textbox would make the image difficult to see.  As is though, it's still hard to see.  I think the cost wasn't worth the payoff, and I'd have to agree with you.  Out of the six or seven I made, that was my second least favorite.

As for the second one, I'm actually pleased with it overall as well.  Did you notice the textbox shadow?  I tried to make it inconspicuous, but just bright enough to vaguely be seen.  I thought it might be a slightly interesting detail.  Just now though, when I was looking at it... it reminded me of a window sill in a space shuttle... like that view of the earth is being seen through such a window.  LOL

And if you didn't like the first layout, I highly doubt you like this one.  

I actually REALLY like the way this one turned out.  I had chosen the image and uploaded it to vizzed, only to shortly regret it after.  I wasn't sure what I would do with it or how I would work the textbox around it.  I wanted to just see what it would look like in one of my old layouts (to try and get an idea of textbox placement, and I was amazed with how well it fit in. I was inspired to adjust the size and location of the textbox, change the colors.. and whammo!  This was the result.  I also debated heavily between darker bars on the top and bottom, or lighter ones. I just went with the lighter in my indecision, since I liked it with both.

These layouts all look so nice . 

This is an awesome idea! And the layouts are really good. Looking forward to seeing your new layouts. As for me, I'll keep on putting verses in my layouts. Just don't know if I can do it on this one since I didn't make it myself.

earthwarrior :  I'll be selling them by ... sets?  If anyone's interested.  I'm not quite sure if anyone would entertain the idea of buying them, so I'll have to get some feedback on that first.

patar4097 :  Thank you so very much.  I have seven in this project done right now.  I'm hoping to make one more today, but I just got done making three layouts today and I have a lot of real life stuff to get to.... so that might not happen today.  LOL  I do love your layouts though, and I hope you continue the good work.

As for this layout, this is my LEAST favorite of all seven I've made.  I mainly wanted to experiment with shadows, and though I'm not fond of this layout, I DID accomplish what I wanted to.  At least, I feel I accomplished it personally.  Since the verse talks about God's work of separation, I wanted the words to appear 'separated' from their background.  I wanted it to look like the words were floating above the wooden image behind them.  I think I did it nicely, though as I said.... I really, really dislike this layout.  haha.

God bless you all.

Here's another layout I made for this project, and I still have a handful left.  This is probably my second favorite, and I hope it looks the same on everyone else's screen, as it does here on mine.  In any case, I've posted the first five.  If anyone would like to buy the first five as a set, I'm willing to sell these together.  I'll let the price begin with 250 Viz for the bundle of 5, and I'll let bidding continue through Saturday.  However, since this thread is more about sharing the progress on my project than any actual bids, this will be a silent auction. That means that you may NOT post your bids here.  If you do, I will not honor them.  Instead, pm me any bids and at midnight on Saturday, whoever has pm'd me the largest bid gets the bundle.

What do you guys think about this one?  There were so many images I wanted to use, but this is the one I stuck with.  I love the image, and I love how the textbox floats around the tree.

Singelli : That's probably my favorite of all the ones you've made.

For me, the picture covers about half of it with black bars on either side...

BTW, great pic!

mrfe: I like it and the bright one.  That does make me curious though... what are the other vizzed user's favorites?  Least favorites?  Please don't post here for the sake of spamming your way through TdV.  I'm honestly interested in thoughtful critique.

mrfe, Yeah, I forgot that you had that SUPER wide screen.  Mine doesn't even show the black bars on the side.  I think I like it better that way.  However, I did notice that in this thread, the hyperlink is pushed a little out of the posting area.  How is that part for you?  It should line up fine for most users, I think. I just have this dinky screen.

Singelli : The hyperlink is within the layout boundaries for me. I really like it!

I'm a huge fan of these layouts, especially in respect to the Biblical references that inspire them. It's creative, it praises our Maker's name, and they're extremely well-done. I particularly like the first one, when God said "Let there be light." The layout is captivating. I know one user didn't like the light, saying it was too bright, but I disagree. It looks phenomenal! I think during the summer, when I have more time, I'm going to start making layouts of my own. The awesomeness of your layouts is definitely motivation to get started! Keep up the good work.

pray75 :  Thanks so very much for your kind words.  I really appreciate the feedback.  I thought the light was a bit too bright for that one myself, but I also think it's the font that doesn't fit too well.  However, each person has their own tastes, and I appreciate the fact that you like it!

I'm really excited to keep working on this project, though I've only got about ten done right now.  This one was alright. I don't like it, and I don't dislike it.  This was me experimenting with using images as the text box background.

As for the bid on the first five layouts:
I've gotten a few bids, and I'll say this much: the highest bidder has offered five times as much as the lowest bidder.  If you want to adjust your bids, you can.  Or if you want to hop in?  Be my guest! You have until the end of today and I'll announce the winning bid around midnight or when I got to bed... whichever comes first.

That last layout is a little hard to read. I really like the transparency effect. 
Hm. Any other hints for the highest bid? hehe.

earthwarrior : mrfe won the bid at 5,000 Viz.  Better luck next time!

I'll let someone buy the next five once I have five more up.  I wasn't personally all that impressed with the next five though, so I might give them away using a different method which requires no Viz.

I must not have made a layout for 1:8, because I can't find one.  That only sort of bothers me, so I might backtrack and add it in.  As for how I felt about this one.... well, I didn't really like it.  I wanted to go for something that just didn't work, and just now, I even remembered something I wanted to do and forgot.  I didn't even want to use this particular image, but all the ones I found like this were not very high resolution, or had the wrong proportions for what I was attempting.  So this is definitely one of my least favorites.

EDIT:  And now, looking at it?  I can see that it's even quite hard to read.  Nonetheless, I wanted to try 'outlining' text.  At least I did that successfully.

What?!?!? Summon fail. Wonderful. 

Here's the second layout of the second installment.  I fell a little behind on creating things because work has kept me a little busy.  My students and I spent the last 3 weeks creating projects, and as of tonight, I have about a dozen that are left to grade.  I can't grade them right now for various reasons, but to make a long story short:  I'm pretty much done grading projects.  With that out of the way, I should have more time to work on this project again.  I can't wait for the summer!

I didn't try anything new for this one.  I just wanted it to look nice.  I hope it does.

I actually wanted this textbox to fall right under the sprout's leaves, but I thought the layout might already look kinda awkward with all that empty space up top.  Thus, I decided not to make that glaring top margin look even more noticeable.

Had to cut down the quality of the image too, because of the vizzed upload standards, but I still think it's nice enough for the layout.