Here are some banners I designed on photoshop:
Please check them and comment

First:


Second:


Third:


Fourth:




DO tell if you liked them or not.

Speedy

Third:


This One's Nice...

Suggestions:
1. Try Different Colors Such as Blue & White Rather Than Black & White
2. Try Writing The Text Using The Dots
3. Use A Happier Face

Great Job!!!

If you come up with anything else, please post it.

Thanks.

WHOA! the second one is AWESOME!

Thanks Stream and Opaque for the comments:

Here are the changes as you said
I lost the .psd file (source file)....thus the colour changes are not that good




Making some more banners.....would upload them soon

Thanks once again for replies
Speedy

Ratings

General Ratings

Number #1 - 10/10
Number #2 - 9.5/10
Number #3 - 7/10
Number #4 - 8.5/10
Number #5 - 9/10
Number #6 - 9/10

General Comments on the Graphics

My suggestion would be that if you want a blank background, don't use white. Instead you should make the backgrounds transparent because it makes the graphic look 10x better.

In order to achieve transparency, you need to files as a .png. The other advantage of the saving in this format is that the image is generally smaller in size without losing quality

The face on the third one looks evil but you made it look better in number 5 & 6. I prefer the colour of the face in graphic #6.

Some great graphics speedy, well done

I like second it really rocks but others its crappy. Well 4th is a bit empty puts something more in it. 3rd Its not bad but the font is very very very bad looks bad. Well about the Fisrt I dont know. I just dont like it. Try to change the colours of First maybe it will look better

i love the first 3, the 4th one i dont really care for though.

i saw the first one and thought "man thats awesome" then i got to the second one WOAH! i love the second one so much. the colors the look the wow.. did i mention i love it!

the third one is hilarious! you should have the white one smiling then make a red one with an angry face! hahah that would be great!

Promotional banners or a header? For promotion, I think you could come up with something more professional. Afterall, Asta is about the professional side of things. Your third one would be perfect for Trap17 (with a few alterations).

The second one is very neatly done, however the graphic in it looks a little like not your work. Please say if I am wrong. It just seems weird, that you have excellent CAD/CAM (3D modelling) skills, yet fall down when it comes to layering text to fit in with an existing element. Perhaps if you made the text on this one "knocked-out" into the metal, it would look a lot better.

The first and fourth ones look childish, and as though you couldn't be bothered with them.

I think the second one also looks really good just change the white to transparent using the magic eraser tool and then save it as .png or if you have it as a bg layer just make it invisible by clicking on the eye in the layers panel but as guy said these are not for promotional banners for astahost because of the "clientel" lol...
The first one can definitely do with a colour change ( maybe astahost colours)
the third one is cool sort of dot matrix but maybe would look better as a smaller banner because its not too complex.
The forth one im not so sure about maybe work on the ripple efect

I love the second 1 it is the best.