Tutorials don't make you better, practice does. Tutorials are an illusion provided for the newbs to make the tutorial creators appear much higher level than the tutorial readers. Using Photoshop every day does not always help, but I use it every other day if not every day. Umm, don't think of it in terms of one banner a day, think of it like this: Say you want to create a really good piece. You're not going to spend only one day working on it, are you? You've got to do it over multiple days for it to be top notch. Alan, don't say that you were "VERY bad"... that's self-destructive. Say that you have gotten better, not that you used to be bad. Anyways, 6 and 7 are pretty good. It's just the text you have trouble with. Try looking at some of my type on TTF, try doing things like that. Keep your text placement in a spot that makes sense, and never ever rotate your font. I went through that, and... not so good.