Thanks davey. Not sure I know what im doing wrong but the border seems to look bad no matter what I do and PS is making me mad right now, so I'm gonna take a break and do some coding... Maybe I'll work on getting a good looking avatar... my problem is mainly that when I make it smaller I lose the text... Which is funny cuz in respect to your and my avatar the text is bigger so I can't quite figure out why it becomes impossible to read... it should be big enough, just most of the character disappears and isn't ledgible :X
I appreciate the help and I'll get back on later and try this again, at which point I'll actually show you what I'm doing ^_^ but for now it looks SOOOOOO bad I couldn't bare to make someone else view it
Edit: Jazzee the problem (as stated above) is that the text disappears into the rest of the image. Also the shield (since that's like the main part) doesn't look like a shield any more, it blends with the text also and just looks like randomness.