Fancy profile BG thing.

[hi19hi19]

This request has a few parts.

First part:
Looking for anyone who can update my avatar. It somehow got ugly artifacts all over it back when I first got it, and has some failure-looking anti-aliasing around the edges as well. This is the original image:
http://katyskubicle.tripod.com/ffood/corn.gif
I'd love for it to be as smooth looking as that .gif, while being re-sized to within the avatar size guidelines (ideally the same size as I have now) and having a transparent background.
If you need a reference, the veggies in my signature have the look I want my corn to have.
I would do this myself, sadly I have zero graphics software aside from paint which as far as I know doesn't handle transparency well.

Second part:
Looking for someone to make me an awesome profile layout. I have a decent banner image right now but it's showing its age somewhat, and I think it's time for a change.
Some guidelines for what I'd like to see:
- It would be great if my avatar looked like it fit in the image. All the cool kids on FFR have profile BGs that fit in with their avatars, don't let me down! :P
- My corn has some friends who are requesting to be in the background image: Avocado, Broccoli, and Beet.
- If you want more, these food relatives wouldn't mind being in with the veggies either, but it's your artistic call: Lemon, Lime, Potato, and Green Onion.
- Corn has some very distant relatives that might fit the theme too. Only use them if you think they'll fit well, because they're all a bit different: Peppers, Sad Onion, Hamburger, Hot Dog, Peanut Butter, and Pizza.
- Finally if you want to go digging for more buddies for my corn here's one link, but I went through and I'm pretty sure I've already linked all the ones in this specific Clip Art style. http://katyskubicle.tripod.com/FunnyFood.html
There may be more foods in this style out on the internet; you could also consider searching other places. I've only ever used the ones on that link.
- My current profile BG is just a solid green. I really like this shade of green, and if you're going to have some interesting image at the top fade out into a color like many profiles do, please use this shade of green or something very close to it.
- Some neat little border effect around the stats and stuff that appear to the sides and below the avatar is a bonus. I use a consistent border around all the other stuff in my profile (i.e. my Details and Stepped Songs windows) so you could consider using that.
- If you're choosing to put a border around my status, you can safely assume it's always going to read "lol happy" and thus never change length.
- Working my username in to the design somehow wouldn't be a bad idea either.
- Oh yeah. Make sure it's AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeee

Third part:
A new cdtitle for Stepmania.
My current cdtitle looks like this:

Although I'm not the hugest fan of the lettering, there's really nothing wrong with this cdtitle, so I'm going to be a lot more picky about if I use a new one.
But feel free to try to make something better, because as long as it includes my corn and my username I'll consider it.


Sadly I really have nothing to give besides a relatively small amount of credits. I do plan on WINNING MY DIVISION IN THE DF TOURNEY HELL YEAH which should be a credit infusion; until then I don't even have enough for Planet Karma yet, so don't expect too much
You're free to put your name somewhere on my profile background if you wish (so long as it's discreet!) and I will definitely make a random thought mentioning you as well. And so maybe knowing that everyone who visits my profile will know you're awesome will be reward enough?