Well JohnRender, 93% of the ppl kept the default colors because they work. There not so brite as to wash out the images or hurt the eyes or burn in the screens. If we've learned anything about the new management of this site is "This is what we are going to do, get use to it" I can understand the reasoning of the businessmen part- make it light so the banners stand out more. But in the long run it will be another fieasco like the free stuff approvial process. Or banning compeating mercahnt site members. I am here as an (wanta be) artist- if my stuff looks bad, I may finally just port everything over to someplace like 3dcommune or Renderotica. Change for change sake is bad. Black or Dark Dark blue background and maby a dark purple or dark flat red or 2 shades of blue would still match asteticly the new banner but keep the professional look. You'd think with thousands of artist here management would use that tremendous resource thats available. They should have the webs number one best looking site around. Imagine if management had to make each and every magazine cover themselfs. ewwwwwww!