We all suck when we start a creation. The key is to research and search and search.
Let me show you my painful process on the last Titanic post. Took me 90 minutes. I even cried because it was too long.
Here are the basic steps.
See ? Easy ! WORK HARDER !!!
EDIT : it doesn't mean I've made a great poster, it means I went to the bottom of the idea. If the idea sucks, the poster will suck. But at least, it's finalized.
Have you thought about the possibility of slight changes in colours between monitors? What I see will probably not be rendered similarly in another computer.
i've got a feeling pala has got an excellent monitor.. or probably 23 excellent monitors.. and he will be the judge.. so who cares about other monitors?