Graphics Designers, please critique
 

Its not very often i ask someone to to rate my work, usually im making fun of other peoples work. But now i see just how much of a pain in the ass designing custom logo's is. Im used to just doing photo minipulation for content etc. Today i took my first swing at designing a logo. Heres what i got so far, suggestions & comments would help a great deal thanks :)

Besides the obvious flaws in my ability to make it transparent

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...e/fda5f96e.gif

Not bad, For starters.

Text needs to be bigger or the bubble smaller.
It's too scatered, try overlapping objects.
:2 cents:

Overlapping objects, thats news to me, i'll have to look that one up.

Hmmm smaller seem to look a little better, what do you think

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...7/fda5f62f.gif

or

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...8/fda5f62e.gif

Try putting the camera between the words. Overlap the camera with the text or vice versa.

ahah! good idea...thanx

starting to look betta?

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...9/fda5f23c.gif

yes

how bout putting the camera in the backround and making the words a little transparent will not make it look as plain.

Ok now the next question i have is about centering things in photoshop. For instance i make a 300x150 banner & want to center the text in the rectangle banner. How would i go about doing this perfectly?

If you can't tell im totally new to this shit.

Transparent so that you can actually see the camera coming through from behind the words?

is this kinda what you meant by making the words transparent

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...8/fda5f0d7.gif

Comming along

Oh well i'm done for tonight, i've learned quite a bit about photoshop tonight, thanks for the help guys.