perhaps if the person whose job is to do so, actually put that cover in the proper place in the site, I wouldn't have wasted that time last night making that sorry excuse for a cover.
ill think twice about trying to contribute to your oh so prestigious site in the future.
It isn't anyone's job. This is a hobby site. A job would indicate that we actually get paid for our time here.
Also - it's pretty clear you haven't read any of the sites guides/stickies or searched for info about quality, image hosting, how to upload, etc, etc. So it's no wonder we get frustrated. (ie: never use photobucket as a host, as it downsamples your image horribly - to demonstrate - I downloaded your cover from there, and pasted it back into a correctly sized template - see how tiny it's become)
As an aside, arseen was trying to be funny. Or at least gentle with you. More a push towards upping your game, not a push towards don't bother.
As segamer says, we get way too many under par covers submitted to the site, it's impossible to say wow that's great to all of them - and I'm sure you'd rather get some feedback, even if it's negative.
As a rule, if the source image is less than 300dpi to begin with, and you have to enlarge it to fit in a UGC, it's extremely unlikely it will ever be of sufficient quality to meet the sites current standards. That being said - it IS possible to work with sub standard images, clean them up, rebuild portions, replace logos, retype texts, use vector logos, etc, etc, to make a cover that would at least look decent printed. However, unfortunately it doesn't look like yours has had enough done to it to make that the case.
We've all been there when we eagerly start out with photoshop - and we get something we think looks great, and want to share with the community. In reality, unless you started with a great scan, or an in depth knowledge of Photoshop, the result is likely to be something that others will pull apart. You've only got to look at some of the shit posted by some of our artists here when they started out - I've got a load of covers hosted here that are an absolute embarrassment - but I submitted them before we upped the quality standards.
In essence - keep at it. Take the feedback, however brutal, and keep sharing.
PS - please remember that English is not the first language for many of our members/admins, so what you may think of as rude is PROBABLY more to do with your interpretation rather than them blowing up at you. We're MOSTLY a friendly bunch here. Even Arseen!
