Because of my love for precision, they never have the pics I want (which is that 1). I can only really get them from the video at the moment, from a bad quality YouTube vid (but maybe in a few months, there will be a new source).
Will do. This is the problem of YouTube vids I mentioned. Banners are really awful when they are the only source for certain images (well, for now anyway.)
Well you're doing good from the start. You just have to keep on looking at others graphics and see what level you can make them too. Work with levels, curves, brightness/contrast, selective coloring, color balance, etc.
Sweet. Last days of summer? Wow. Mines really halfway, I guess, and for some here, it has literally just begun. Did you enjoy it?
Hopefully I'll improve, yet I'm happy, as I extract some avatars from YouTube videos, and use Gimp to make them look better, like my current Profile Pic. That is a good thing for me (shame I can't really make banners the same way, as the quality is... Not good enough for them!)