CrazyHarij said:pacerzfan, it's obvious you're a great basketball fan and it really shows in your signatures. I actually really like the design of them, but there's one problem - the color relationships. You're using too saturated and contrasting colors that just don't look well together. You need to make the text "pop" and be easy to read (one thing that helps with that is more readable fonts), but still blend in with the rest of the picture.
Cool colors (blue, purple etc, google image "color wheel") are good as backgrounds, but make them darker and less saturated so it doesn't look like a MS Paint-image. Try to make the background more of a gradient and add in effects or other splashes of similar colors.
Use more hot colors (red, yellow, orange) for the foreground, but it should still be less saturated in my opinion. And don't make it pure red, go with a mixture between desaturated red and orange or something like that. The colors heavily affect both the feel, emotion and style of your images so they're incredibly important.
As you can see, when the colors aren't good it makes you actually feel bad looking at it, but when the color mixing is great it's hard to take your eyes off it!
Also, don't paint anything on the faces of the basketball players, they need to be easy to see and stand out. Make the colors contrast abit more around them to make them stand out, you want to direct the viewers eyes right to the photo and the text.
Here's two links on color theory if you want to take the time to learn, then, with time and practice, you'll be able to make kickass stuff:
http://www.worqx.com/color/
http://www.epilogue.net/art/tech/socar_color/
The second one is more geared towards art, but it's the same thing really, these rules don't change no matter what medium you're using the colors in.
Keep it up, everyone has to start somewhere
