It's been a while, Skype avatar

Heya guys!

It's been a while since I've photoshopped anything at all, but a few weeks ago I finally got round to installing Photoshop again.
I've been avatar-less on Skype for a while now, and I decided to make one.
This is the result:



I'm pretty proud of it even if it was only ~20 minutes of work from scratch.
The background in the letters is a picture of NY, just felt like doing something in the letters.
I'm thinking about changing the NY picture to something else, but hey, it's awesome so far.

Please leave honest feedback, I'm liking it myself, but I feel there is much to improve

Cheers!

 

Really like the city background within the lettering

 

Is this not just a text, a city clipping masked and stroke?
2 mins work?

 

Awesome, nice and easy effect tbh

Yah no shit
As title states, it's been a while.

 

Pretty basic, too much empty space imo considering it shrinks down for the skype picture. Make sure to show us all your future stuff!

 

Thanks for the feedback

And I'll be sure to post a few graphics here whenever I make some new ones

 

The city background within the lettering make's it.

 

The city effects look amazing!
Well done

 

I don't like the red/grey backround so much, maybe not at all. sorry bout that, But i really like the city with the orange stroke. I hate to sound like an arse but this is only my opinion.

 

No problem at all, Red is always my preferred color, I just like how it looks.
Matter of opinion

 

Seems like once it would be used in Skype, it would be pretty tough to read, but the text would look pretty cool on a Sig , nice job though man.