Please oh please make it stop. The difference clouds are so recognizable and so (no offense) ugly. For the love of everything beautiful, go to
http://www.imageafter.com, find some pictures you like that will fit your theme, and blend them together (play with blending modes and opacity in photoshop or GIMP). You can always play with the color with a hue adjustment.
As far as those border things go, the colors need work. Make them a solid color, not a gradient, and make them look worn or something. If you can make them look decent then I think they\'d be far better looking than nixing them altogether.
I\'m not trying to be rude, I know how much work it is and you\'ve done good keeping up with it, but...it needs work.

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